his own breast in evil hour unarmed to the Arcadian
lance. 35
But Lausus, himself a mighty portion of the war, suffers
not his troops to be dismayed by the hero’s dreadful
carnage: first he slays Abas, who had met him front to
front, the breakwater and barrier of fight. Down go the
sons of Arcadia, down go the Etruscans, and ye, too
Teucrians, whose frames Greece could not destroy. The
armies clash, their leaders and their powers the same.
The rear ranks close up the battle; nor weapon nor hand 5