§11.611crebra nivis ritu caelumque obtexitur umbra.
Thick as snow, and the sky is covered with shadow.
§11.612Continuo adversis Tyrrhenus et acer Aconteus §11.613conixi incurrunt hastis primique ruina §11.614dant sonitum ingenti perfractaque quadrupedantum §11.615pectora pectoribus rumpunt: excussus Aconteus §11.616fulminis in morem aut tormento ponderis acti §11.617praecipitat longe et vitam dispergit in auras.
Straightway the Tyrrhenian and eager Aconteus, facing each other, straining, rush on with spears and first with a huge crash make a sound, and break the shattered breasts of the horses, dashing them breast against breast; flung off, Aconteus, in the manner of a thunderbolt or a heavy weight driven from an engine, falls headlong far away and scatters his life into the air.
Immediately the ranks are thrown into confusion, and the turned Latins sling back their shields and turn their horses toward the walls.
§11.620Troes agunt, princeps turmas inducit Asilas.
The Trojans pursue; foremost Asilas leads on the squadrons.
§11.621Iamque propinquabant portis, rursusque Latini §11.622clamorem tollunt et mollia colla reflectunt: §11.623hi fugiunt penitusque datis referuntur habenis.
And now they were approaching the gates, and again the Latins raise a shout and bend back the supple necks of their horses; these now flee and are carried back far away with given reins.
§11.624Qualis ubi alterno procurrens gurgite pontus §11.625nunc ruit ad terram scopulusque superiacit unda §11.626spumeus extremamque sinu perfundit arenam, §11.627nunc rapidus retro atque aestu revoluta resorbens §11.628saxa fugit litusque vado labente relinquit:
Just as when the sea, running forward with alternating tide, now rushes to the land and, foaming, throws its wave over the rocks, and drenches the edge of the sand with its bosom; now rapid back again, and sucking back the stones rolled in its undertow, it flees and leaves the shore as the shallow water slips away.
§11.629bis Tusci Rutulos egere ad moenia versos, §11.630bis reiecti armis respectant terga tegentes.
Twice the Etruscans drove the turned Rutulians to the walls; twice, repulsed, they look back, protecting their backs with their shields.
§11.631Tertia sed postquam congressi in proelia totas §11.632implicuere inter se acies legitque virum vir: §11.633tum vero et gemitus morientum et sanguine in alto §11.634armaque corporaque et permixti caede virorum §11.635semianimes volvuntur equi, pugna aspera surgit.
But after they joined battle for the third time and entangled their whole lines with one another, and man chose man; then indeed, both the groans of the dying, and in deep blood weapons and bodies, and, mingled with the slaughter of men, half-dead horses are rolled; a bitter fight arises.
§11.636Orsilochus Remuli, quando ipsum horrebat adire, §11.637hastam intorsit equo ferrumque sub aure reliquit.
Orsilochus, since he dreaded to approach Remulus himself, hurled his spear at the horse and left the iron head beneath its ear.
§11.638Quo sonipes ictu furit arduus altaque iactat §11.639vulneris impatiens arrecto pectore crura: §11.640volvitur ille excussus humi.
By which blow the steed rages, rearing high, and, unable to bear the wound, flings its legs aloft with upright breast; he, thrown off, is rolled on the ground.
Catillus Iollan §11.641ingentemque animis, ingentem corpore et armis §11.642deicit Herminium, nudo cui vertice fulva §11.643caesaries nudique umeri, nec vulnera terrent: §11.644tantus in arma patet.
Catillus dejected Iollas, and Herminius, huge in spirit, huge in body and in arms, whose bare head had yellow hair flowing, and bare shoulders, nor did wounds terrify him; so huge he lay open to weapons.
Latos huic hasta per armos §11.645acta tremit duplicatque virum transfixa dolore.
A spear, driven through his broad shoulders, quivers and, piercing him, doubles the man with pain.
§11.646Funditur ater ubique cruor; dant funera ferro §11.647certantes pulchramque petunt per vulnera mortem.
Dark blood is poured out everywhere; fighting they deal death with the sword, and seek a beautiful death through wounds.
§11.648At medias inter caedes exsultat Amazon, §11.649unum exserta latus pugnae, pharetrata Camilla, §11.650et nunc lenta manu spargens hastilia denset, §11.651nunc validam dextra rapit indefessa bipennem; §11.652aureus ex umero sonat arcus et arma Dianae.
But in the midst of the slaughters the Amazon exults, with one side bared for the fight, Camilla girt with a quiver, and now with her hand scattering she makes thick the tough javelins, now with untired right hand she seizes a strong double-axe; the golden bow and the arms of Diana resound from her shoulder.
§11.653Illa etiam in tergum, siquando pulsa recessit, §11.654spicula converso fugientia dirigit arcu.
She also toward her back, if ever driven back she retreated, directs fleeing arrows with her turned bow.
§11.655At circum lectae comites, Larinaque virgo §11.656Tullaque et aeratam quatiens Tarpeia securem, §11.657Italides, quas ipsa decus sibi dia Camilla §11.658delegit pacisque bonas bellique ministras: §11.659quales Threiciae cum flumina Thermodontis §11.660pulsant et pictis bellantur Amazones armis §11.661seu circum Hippolyten, seu cum se Martia curru §11.662Penthesilea refert, magnoque ululante tumultu §11.663feminea exsultant lunatis agmina peltis.
And around her are chosen companions, the maiden Larina, and Tulla, and Tarpeia shaking her bronze-clad axe, daughters of Italy, whom divine Camilla herself chose for her own glory and as good helpers of both peace and war: just as when the Thracian Amazons trample the waters of Thermodon and fight with painted arms, whether around Hippolyte, or when Penthesilea, daughter of Mars, returns in her chariot, and with a great howling tumult the female hosts exult with their crescent shields.
§11.664Quem telo primum, quem postremum, aspera virgo,
Whom first with your weapon, whom last, fierce maiden, do you cast down?
§11.665deicis? Aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis?
Or how many dying bodies do you strew on the ground?
§11.666Eunaeum Clitio primum patre, cuius apertum §11.667adversi longa transverberat abiete pectus: §11.668sanguinis ille vomens rivos cadit atque cruentam §11.669mandit humum moriensque suo se in volnere versat.
First Eunaeus, whose father was Clytius, whose open breast as he faced her she pierces with a long pine spear; vomiting streams of blood he falls, and bites the bloody ground, and dying turns himself on his own wound.
§11.670Tum Lirim Pagasumque super; quorum alter habenas §11.671suffosso revolutus equo dum colligit, alter §11.672dum subit ac dextram labenti tendit inermem, §11.673praecipites pariterque ruunt.
Then Liris and Pagasus on top of him; of whom the one, tumbled from his stabbed horse, while he gathers the reins, the other, while he comes up and stretches out his unarmed right hand to the falling man, fall headlong and together.
His addit Amastrum §11.674Hippotaden, sequiturque incumbens eminus hasta §11.675Tereaque Harpalycumque et Demophoonta Chrominque; §11.676quotque emissa manu contorsit spicula virgo, §11.677tot Phrygii cecidere viri.
To these she adds Amastrus, son of Hippotas, and pursues, pressing upon them from afar with her spear, Tereus and Harpalycus and Demophoon and Chromis; and as many arrows as the maiden sent spinning from her hand, so many Phrygian men fell.
Procul Ornytus armis §11.678ignotis et equo venator Iapyge fertur, §11.679cui pellis latos umeros erepta iuvenco §11.680pugnatori operit, caput ingens oris hiatus §11.681et malae texere lupi cum dentibus albis, §11.682agrestisque manus armat sparus;
At a distance, Ornytus, a hunter with unfamiliar arms, is carried on an Apulian horse; a hide stripped from a steer covers the broad shoulders of him as he fights, and the huge gaping mouth of a wolf and its jaws with white teeth covered his head; and a rustic hunting spear arms his hands.
ipse catervis §11.683vertitur in mediis et toto vertice supra est.
He himself in the midst of the squadrons moves, and is above them by a whole head.
§11.684Hunc illa exceptum, neque enim labor agmine verso, §11.685traicit et super haec inimico pectore fatur: §11.686Silvis te, Tyrrhene, feras agitare putasti?
Him she catches—for there was no difficulty, since the line had turned— and transfixes him, and speaks these things over him with hostile breast: "Did you think, Tyrrhenian, that you were chasing wild beasts in the forests?
The day has come that refutes your words with a woman's weapons.
Nomen tamen haud leve patrum
Yet no light name to your fathers' shades...