§9.516immanem Teucri molem volvuntque ruuntque, §9.517quae stravit Rutulos late armorumque resolvit §9.518tegmina.
The Trojans roll and push down a huge mass, which laid low the Rutulians far and wide and broke the coverings of their armor.
Nec curant caeco contendere Marte §9.519amplius audaces Rutuli, sed pellere vallo §9.520missilibus certant.
No longer do the daring Rutulians care to contend in blind warfare, but strive to drive them from the rampart with missiles.
§9.521Parte alia horrendus visu quassabat Etruscam §9.522pinum et fumiferos infert Mezentius ignis; §9.523at Messapus equum domitor, Neptunia proles, §9.524rescindit vallum et scalas in moenia poscit.
In another part, terrifying to behold, Mezentius was brandishing his Etruscan pine and bringing in smoky fires; but Messapus, tamer of horses, offspring of Neptune, tears down the rampart and calls for ladders to the walls.
§9.525Vos, o Calliope, precor, adspirate canenti, §9.526quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus §9.527ediderit, quem quisque virum demiserit Orco; §9.528et mecum ingentis oras evolvite belli,
You, O Calliope, I pray, inspire me as I sing, what slaughter Turnus then dealt there with the sword, what deaths he produced, which man each warrior sent down to Orcus; and unroll with me the vast borders of the war.
§9.530Turris erat vasto suspectu et pontibus altis, §9.531opportuna loco, summis quam viribus omnes §9.532expugnare Itali summaque evertere opum vi §9.533certabant, Troes contra defendere saxis §9.534perque cavas densi tela intorquere fenestras.
There was a tower of vast height, with high bridges, advantageous in its position, which all the Italians with their utmost strength were striving to storm, and to overturn with the highest power of their resources; in response, the Trojans were defending it with stones and thickly hurl weapons through the hollow windows.
§9.535Princeps ardentem coniecit lampada Turnus §9.536et flammam adfixit lateri, quae plurima vento §9.537corripuit tabulas et postibus haesit adesis.
Turnus was the first to fling a burning torch and fixed the flame to its side; which, multiplied by the wind, seized the planks and clung to the consumed door-posts.
Terrified, those within panic and in vain desire flight from their ills.
Dum se glomerant retroque residunt §9.540in partem, quae peste caret, tum pondere turris §9.541procubuit subito et caelum tonat omne fragore.
While they crowd together and retreat to that part which is free from the plague, then by its weight the tower suddenly collapsed, and the whole sky thunders with the crash.
§9.542Semineces ad terram, immani mole secuta, §9.543confixique suis telis et pectora duro §9.544transfossi ligno veniunt.
Half-dead to the ground they come, the huge mass following them, pierced by their own weapons, and their breasts transfixed by the hard wood.
Vix unus Helenor §9.545et Lycus elapsi.
Scarcely did Helenor alone and Lycus escape.
Quorum primaevus Helenor, §9.546Maeonio regi quem serva Licymnia furtim §9.547sustulerat vetitisque ad Troiam miserat armis, §9.548ense levis nudo parmaque inglorius alba; §9.549isque ubi se Turni media inter milia vidit, §9.550hinc acies atque hinc acies adstare Latinas: §9.551ut fera, quae densa venantum saepta corona §9.552contra tela furit seseque haud nescia morti §9.553inicit et saltu supra venabula fertur, §9.554haud aliter iuvenis medios moriturus in hostis §9.555inruit et, qua tela videt densissima, tendit.
Of whom Helenor, in the prime of youth, whom the slave Licymnia had secretly reared for the Maeonian king, and had sent to Troy with forbidden arms, light-armed with a bare sword and inglorious with a blank shield; and when he saw himself in the midst of Turnus' thousands, and that Latin lines stood there on this side and on that: just as a wild beast, hemmed in by a dense ring of hunters, rages against their weapons, and not ignorant of its fate flings itself upon death, and is carried by a leap over the hunting-spears, not otherwise did the youth rush into the midst of the enemy, ready to die, and press forward where he saw the weapons thickest.
§9.556At pedibus longe melior Lycus inter et hostis §9.557inter et arma fuga muros tenet altaque certat §9.558prendere tecta manu sociumque attingere dextras.
But Lycus, far swifter on his feet, flees through the enemy and through the weapons, reaches the walls, and strives to grasp the high roofs with his hand and reach the right hands of his comrades.
§9.559Quem Turnus, pariter cursu teloque secutus, §9.560increpat his victor:
Nostrasne evadere, demens, §9.561sperasti te posse manus?
Simul adripit ipsum §9.562pendentem et magna muri cum parte revellit.
Whom Turnus, following him equally with speed and weapon, taunts him in victory with these words: "Did you hope, madman, that you could escape our hands?" At the same time, he seizes him as he hangs and tears him down along with a huge piece of the wall.
§9.563Qualis ubi aut leporem aut candenti corpore cycnum §9.564sustulit alta petens pedibus Iovis armiger uncis §9.565quaesitum aut matri multis balatibus agnum §9.566Martius a stabulis rapuit lupus.
Just as when either a hare or a swan of shining body, the armour-bearer of Jupiter, seeking the heights, has carried up in its curved claws, or as the wolf of Mars has snatched from the sheepfolds a lamb sought by its mother with many bleatings.
Undique clamor §9.567tollitur: invadunt et fossas agere complent; §9.568ardentis taedas alii ad fastigia iactant.
From all sides the clamor arises; they rush in and fill the trenches, piling them up; others throw burning torches to the roofs.
§9.569Ilioneus saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis §9.570Lucetium portae subeuntem ignisque ferentem, §9.571Emathiona Liger, Corynaeum sternit Asilas, §9.572hic iaculo bonus, hic longe fallente sagitta, §9.573Ortygium Caeneus, victorem Caenea Turnus, §9.574Turnus Ityn Cloniumque, Dioxippum Promolumque §9.575et Sagarim et summis stantem pro turribus Idan, §9.576Privernum Capys.
Ilioneus with a stone, even a huge fragment of a mountain, lays low Lucetius as he approached the gate and carried fire; Liger slays Emathion, Asilas kills Corynaeus, the one good with the javelin, the other with the far-deceiving arrow; Caeneus slays Ortygius, and victorious Turnus slays Caeneus, Turnus slays Itys and Clonius, Dioxippum and Promolum, and Sagaris and Idas who was standing on the highest towers; Capys slays Privernus.
Hunc primo levis hasta Themillae §9.577strinxerat: ille manum proiecto tegmine demens §9.578ad volnus tulit; ergo alis adlapsa sagitta §9.579et laevo infixa est lateri manus abditaque intus §9.580spiramenta animae letali volnere rupit.
Him first the light spear of Themilla had grazed; he, foolishly throwing away his shield, had brought his hand to the wound; therefore an arrow came gliding on wings, and his hand was pinned to his left side, and hidden deep within it broke the passages of his breath with a deadly wound.
§9.581Stabat in egregiis Arcentis filius armis, §9.582pictus acu chlamydem et ferrugine clarus Hibera, §9.583insignis facie, genitor quem miserat Arcens, §9.584eductum Matris luco Symaethia circum §9.585flumina, pinguis ubi et placabilis ara Palici: §9.586stridentem fundam positis Mezentius hastis §9.587ipse ter adducta circum caput egit habena §9.588et media adversi liquefacto tempora plumbo §9.589diffidit ac multa porrectum extendit harena.
The son of Arcens stood in magnificent armor, his cloak embroidered and bright with Iberian rust-color, distinguished in beauty, whom his father Arcens had sent, reared in the grove of the Mother around the Symaethian rivers, where there is a rich and placable altar of Palicus: Mezentius, laying aside his spears, himself with three turns of the cord whirled the thong around his head, and split open the middle of the temple of his opposing enemy with the melted lead, and stretched him out at full length upon the deep sand.
§9.590Tum primum bello celerem intendisse sagittam §9.591dicitur ante feras solitus terrere fugaces §9.592Ascanius fortemque manu fudisse Numanum,
Then first in war is Ascanius said to have aimed a swift arrow, accustomed before to terrify fleeing beasts, and to have laid low the brave Numanus with his hand,