more; even so, stormed on by javelins from all sides,

Æneas endures the thunder-cloud of war till all its artillery

be spent, and keeps chiding Lausus and threatening 10

Lausus: “Whither are you rushing on your death, with

aims beyond your strength? Your duteous heart blinds

your reckless valour.” Yet he bates not a jot in his

frantic onslaught: and now the Dardan leader’s wrath

surges into fury, and the fatal sisters are gathering up 15

Lausus’ last thread, for Æneas drives his forceful blade

sheer through the youth’s body, and buries it wholly