the portentous gods of all the nations, and Anubis[261] the
barking monster, brandishing their weapons in the face
of Neptune and Venus and in the face of Pallas. Midmost
in the fray storms Mavors,[262] relieved in iron, and fell
Fury-fiends swooping from the sky; and Discord sweeps 35
along in the glory of her rent mantle, and at her back
Bellona with blood-dropping scourge. There was Actium’s
Apollo, with his eye on the fray, bending his bow from
above; at whose terror all Egypt and Ind, all Arabia, all
the sons of Saba[263] were turning the back in flight. The