Tyrrheus’ warrior-sons the rear: Turnus himself, the 30
general, is in the centre—like Ganges with his seven calm
streams proudly rising through the silence, or Nile when
he withdraws from the plain his fertilizing waters and has
at last subsided into his bed. Suddenly the Teucrians
look forth on a cloud massed with murky dust, and see
darkness gathering over the plain. First cries Caicus from 5
the rampart’s front: “What mass have we here, my
countrymen, rolling towards us, black as night? Quick
with the steel, bring weapons, man the walls, the enemy