scattering ranks of warriors, hears tidings that the foe,

fevered by the taste of blood, has thrown the gates open.

He leaves the work he had begun, and stirred with giant

fury hastens to the Dardan gate and the two haughty

brethren. Hurling his dart, he first slays Antiphates, who

happened first to meet him, bastard son of great Sarpedon

by a Theban mother; the shaft of Italian cornel flies

through the yielding air, and lodging in the throat goes 5

deep down into the chest; the wound’s dark pit spouts

forth a foaming torrent, and the cold steel grows warm