by he surprises three attendants, stretched carelessly 25
among their weapons, and Remus’ armour-bearer and
charioteer, catching him as he lay at the horses’ side:
the steel shears through their drooping necks; then he
lops the head of their lord, and leaves the trunk gurgling
and spouting blood, while ground and couch are reeking 30
with black streams of gore. Lamyrus too, and Lamus,
and young Serranus, who had played long that night in the
pride of his beauty, and was lying with the dream-god’s
hand heavy upon him; happy, had he made his play as