Obvia cui Volscorum acie comitante Camilla
occurrit portisque ab equo regina sub ipsis
500desiluit, quam tota cohors imitata relictis
ad terram defluxit equis; tum talia fatur:
“Turne, sui merito siqua est fiducia forti,
audeo et Aeneadum promitto occurrere turmae
solaque Tyrrhenos equites ire obvia contra.
505Me sine prima manu temptare pericula belli
tu pedes ad muros subsiste et moenia serva.”
Turnus ad haec, oculos horrenda in virgine fixus:
“O decus Italiae virgo, quas dicere grates
quasve referre parem? Sed nunc, est omnia quando
510iste animus supra, mecum partire laborem.
Aeneas, ut fama fidem missique reportant
exploratores, equitum levia improbus arma
praemisit, quaterent campos; ipse ardua montis
per deserta iugo superans adventat ad urbem.
515Furta paro belli convexo in tramite silvae?
ut bivias armato obsidam milite fauces.
Tu Tyrrhenum equitem conlatis excipe signis;
tecum acer Messapus erit turmaeque Latinae
Tiburtique manus, ducis et tu concipe curam.”
520Sic ait, et paribus Messapum in proelia dictis
hortatur sociosque duces et pergit in hostem.
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Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
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