pass into safety.

Meanwhile a troop of horse, sent on from the town of

Latium, while the rest of the force abides drawn up on the

field, was on its way with a message to king Turnus, three 30

hundred, shield-bearers all, with Volscens, their chief.

They were just nearing the camp, and passing under the

wall, when at distance they spy the two bending to the

left, and the helmet, seen in the glimmering twilight,

betrayed the heedless Euryalus, as the moonbeam flashed 35

full upon it. The sight fell not on idle eyes. Volscens