on all hands by your ramparts, has spread unavenged

such havoc through your streets, has sent down to death so

many of your bravest? As ye think of your unhappy

country, your ancient gods, your great Æneas, is there no 25

pity, no shame in your sluggish hearts?” Roused by these

words they rally and halt in close array. Turnus step by

step withdraws from the fight, making for the river and

the part round which the water runs. All the more keenly

the Teucrians press on him with loud shouts and close their 30

ranks: as when a company of hunters bears down on a