in the gilded cloister, and shrieking that the Gauls were
at the door. The Gauls were at hand marching among 20
the brushwood, and had gained the summit sheltered
by the darkness and the kindly grace of dusky night.
Golden is their hair and golden their raiment; striped
cloaks gleam on their shoulders; their milk-white necks
are twined with gold; each brandishes two Alpine javelins, 25
his body guarded by the long oval of his shield. There
he had shown in relief the Salii in their dances and the
naked Luperci, and the woolly peaks of their caps, and