He slays his enemy in fair battle, and though he shows exultation in his victory, yet he does not sully it by any ferocity of act or demeanour—
qualem meruit Pallanta remitto,
Quisquis honos tumuli, quidquid solamen humandi est
Largior[650].
After his hopes of success are shaken by the first defeat of the Latins, and by the failure of the mission to Diomede, and when the timidity of Latinus and the envy of Drances urge the abandonment of the struggle, he still retains a proud confidence in his Italian allies—
Non erit auxilio nobis Aetolos et Arpi,
At Messapus erit, felixque Tolumnius[651], etc.
He is ready, like an earlier Decius, to devote his life in single combat against the new Achilles, armed with the armour of Vulcan—
vobis animam hanc soceroque Latino
Turnus ego, haut ulli veterum virtute secundus,