Troy.” With that he seizes his mighty spear and launches 10
it: flying on it crashes through the brass of Mæon’s shield
and rends breastplate and breast at once. Swift comes
his brother Alcanor and props with his hand the falling
man: piercing the arm the spear flies onward and holds
its bloody course, and the dying hand dangles by the 15
sinews from the shoulder-blade. Then Numitor, snatching
the javelin from his brother’s body, assails Æneas;
yet it might not lodge in the enemy’s front, but just
grazed the thigh of mighty Achates.