Pandarus and Bitias, sons of Idæan Alcanor, brought up
by Iæra the wood-nymph in the grove of Jupiter, youths
tall as the pines and peaks of their birthplace, throw open
the gate, which the general’s order placed in their charge,
relying on their good steel, and invite the foe to enter the 20
town. Themselves within right and left stand before the
bulwarks, sheathed in iron, the crest waving on their lofty
heads: even as high in air beside the flowing streams,
on Padus’[269] banks it may be or by pleasant Athesis,[270] uptower
two oaks, raising to heaven their unshorn summits 25