§7.652ducit Agyllina nequiquam ex urbe secutos §7.653mille viros, dignus, patriis qui laetior esset §7.654imperiis et cui pater haud Mezentius esset.
leads a thousand men who followed him in vain from the Agyllian city, worthy to have been happier under his father's commands, and to have had someone other than Mezentius as a father.
§7.655Post hos insignem palma per gramina currum §7.656victoresque ostentat equos satus Hercule pulchro §7.657pulcher Aventinus, clipeoque insigne paternum §7.658centum angues cinctamque gerit serpentibus hydram; §7.659collis Aventini silva quem Rhea sacerdos §7.660furtivum partu sub luminis edidit oras, §7.661mixta deo mulier, postquam Laurentia victor §7.662Geryone extincto Tirynthius attigit arva §7.663Tyrrhenoque boves in flumine lavit Hiberas.
After these, Aventinus, beautiful son born of beautiful Hercules, displays his chariot distinguished by the palm through the grass and his victorious horses; and on his shield he bears his father's device, a hundred snakes and the hydra girt with serpents; whom Rhea the priestess in the wood of the Aventine hill brought forth by a secret birth into the borders of light, a woman mingled with a god, after the victorious Tirynthian, Geryon having been slain, reached the Laurentian fields and bathed his Iberian cattle in the Tyrrhenian river.
They carry javelins in their hands and cruel daggers into battles, and they fight with a smooth point and the Sabellian dart.
§7.666Ipse pedes, tegumen torquens immane leonis, §7.667terribili impexum saeta cum dentibus albis §7.668indutus capiti, sic regia tecta subibat, §7.669horridus, Herculeoque umeros innexus amictu.
He himself, on foot, shaking a huge lion's skin, with its terrible uncombed shaggy hair, put over his head with its white teeth, was thus entering the royal palace, dreadful, and his shoulders wrapped in the Herculean cloak.
§7.670Tum gemini fratres Tiburtia moenia linquunt, §7.671fratris Tiburti dictam cognomine gentem, §7.672Catillusque acerque Coras, Argiva iuventus, §7.673et primam ante aciem densa inter tela feruntur: §7.674ceu duo nubigenae cum vertice montis ab alto §7.675descendunt centauri, Homolen Othrymque nivalem §7.676linquentes cursu rapido; dat euntibus ingens §7.677silva locum et magno cedunt virgulta fragore.
Then twin brothers leave the Tiburtine walls, a people named after the cognomen of their brother Tiburtus, Catillus and fierce Coras, Argive youth, and they are carried before the first battle line among thick weapons: as when two cloud-born Centaurs descend from the high peak of a mountain, leaving Homole and snowy Othrys in rapid course; the vast wood gives place to them as they go, and the thickets yield with a great crash.
§7.678Nec Praenestinae fundator defuit urbis, §7.679Volcano genitum pecora inter agrestia regem §7.680inventumque focis omnis quem credidit aetas §7.681Caeculus.
Nor was the founder of the Praenestine city absent, Caeculus, whom every age believed to have been born to Vulcan among the rustic herds and found by the hearth, a king.
Hunc late legio comitatur agrestis: §7.682quique altum Praeneste viri quique arva Gabinae §7.683Iunonis gelidumque Anienem et roscida rivis §7.684Hernica saxa colunt, quos dives Anagnia pascit, §7.685quos, Amasene pater.
A rustic legion accompanies him far and wide: both the men who inhabit high Praeneste, and the fields of Gabine Iunones, and the cold Anio, and the Hernician rocks dewy with streams, those whom rich Anagnia feeds, and those whom you, father Amasenus, feed.
Non illis omnibus arma, §7.686nec clipei currusve sonant: pars maxima glandes §7.687liventis plumbi spargit, pars spicula gestat §7.688bina manu, fulvosque lupi de pelle galeros §7.689tegmen habent capiti, vestigia nuda sinistri §7.690instituere pedis, crudus tegit altera pero.
Not all of them have weapons, nor do shields or chariots resound: the greatest part scatters bullets of livid lead, a part carries two darts in hand, and they have yellow helmets from the skin of a wolf as a covering for their head; they have set the sole of the left foot bare, and a raw hide boot covers the other.
§7.691At Messapus, equum domitor, Neptunia proles, §7.692quem neque fas igni cuiquam nec sternere ferro, §7.693iam pridem resides populos desuetaque bello §7.694agmina in arma vocat subito ferrumque retractat.
But Messapus, tamer of horses, offspring of Neptune, whom it is permitted for no one to overthrow by fire nor by steel, suddenly calls to arms peoples long inactive and columns unaccustomed to war, and handles the steel again.
§7.695Hi Fescenninas acies Aequosque Faliscos. §7.696Hi Soractis habent arces Flaviniaque arva §7.697et Cimini cum monte lacum lucosque Capenos.
These hold the Fescennine ranks and the Aequi Falisci; these hold the heights of Soracte and the Flavinian fields, and the lake of Ciminus with its mountain, and the groves of Capena.
§7.698Ibant aequati numero regemque canebant, §7.699ceu quondam nivei liquida inter nubila cycni, §7.700cum sese e pastu referunt et longa canoros §7.701dant per colla modos, sonat amnis et Asia longe §7.702pulsa palus.
They went keeping equal step in number and sang of their king, as sometimes snowy swans among the clear clouds, when they return from pasture and give melodious measures through their long necks; the river resounds and the Asian marsh struck from afar.
§7.703Nec quisquam aeratas acies ex agmine tanto §7.704misceri putet, aeriam sed gurgite ab alto §7.705urgueri volucrum raucarum ad litora nubem.
Nor would anyone think that bronze battle lines from so great an army were being mixed, but that an aerial cloud of hoarse birds was being driven from the deep gulf to the shores.
§7.706Ecce Sabinorum prisco de sanguine magnum §7.707agmen agens Clausus magnique ipse agminis instar, §7.708Claudia nunc a quo diffunditur et tribus et gens §7.709per Latium, postquam in partem data Roma Sabinis.
Behold, Clausus, from the ancient blood of the Sabines, leading a great army, and himself like a great army, from whom now both the Claudian tribe and family is diffused through Latium, after Rome was given in part to the Sabines.
§7.710Una ingens Amiterna cohors priscique Quirites, §7.711Ereti manus omnis oliviferaeque Mutuscae; §7.712qui Nomentum urbem, qui Rosea rura Velini, §7.713qui Tetricae horrentis rupes montemque Severum §7.714Casperiamque colunt Forulosque et flumen Himellae, §7.715qui Tiberim Fabarimque bibunt, quos frigida misit §7.716Nursia, et Hortinae classes populique Latini, §7.717quosque secans infaustum interluit Allia nomen: §7.718quam multi Libyco volvuntur marmore fluctus §7.719saevus ubi Orion hibernis conditur undis; §7.720vel cum sole novo densae torrentur aristae §7.721aut Hermi campo aut Lyciae flaventibus arvis.
With him the huge Amiternian cohort and the ancient Quirites, all the band of Eretum and olive-bearing Mutusca; those who inhabit the city of Nomentum, the Rosean fields of Velinus, those who inhabit the crags of rugged Tetrica and Mount Severus, and Casperia and Foruli and the river of Himella; those who drink the Tiber and Fabaris, those whom cold Nursia sent, and the Hortine fleets and the Latin peoples, and those whom Allia, cutting through, flows between, an ill-omened name: as many as the waves that are rolled on the Libyan sea when fierce Orion is hidden in the wintry waters; or when dense ears of corn are scorched by the new sun either in the plain of Hermus or in the yellow fields of Lycia.
§7.722Scuta sonant pulsuque pedum conterrita tellus.
Shields resound, and the earth is terrified by the beat of feet.
§7.723Hinc Agamemnonius, Troiani nominis hostis, §7.724curru iungit Halaesus equos Turnoque ferocis §7.725mille rapit populos, vertunt felicia Baccho §7.726Massica qui rastris et quos de collibus altis §7.727Aurunci misere patres, Sidicinaque iuxta §7.728aequora quique Cales linquunt, amnisque vadosi §7.729accola Volturni, pariterque Saticulus asper §7.730Oscorumque manus.
Next Halaesus, of Agamemnon's line, enemy of the Trojan name, yokes his horses to his chariot and hurries a thousand fierce peoples for Turnus: those who turn the Massic hills, fertile in Bacchus, with rakes, and those whom the Auruncan fathers sent from the high hills, and the Sidicine plains nearby, and those who leave Cales, and the dweller of the shallow river Volturnus, and together the fierce Saticulan and the band of the Osci.
Teretes sunt aclydes illis §7.731tela, sed haec lento mos est aptare flagello; §7.732laevas caetra tegit, falcati comminus enses.
Smooth light javelins are their weapons, but it is their custom to attach these to a supple thong; a small target shield covers their left arms, and they have falcated swords for close combat.