reply: “Those many talents you name of silver and gold,
keep them for your sons. Turnus was the first to put an
end to such trading usages of war at the moment when he
slew Pallas. My sire Anchises’ ghost, and my son Iulus, 5
speak their thoughts through me.” This said, with his
left hand he grasps the helmet and drives his sword hilt-deep
through the suppliant’s back-drawn neck. Hard by
was Hæmonides, priest of Phœbus and Trivia, his temples
wreathed with the fillet’s sacred band, glittering all over 10
with gay raiment and goodly armour. Him he meets,