Then, one of far-descended Sabine name,Clausus advanced, the captain of a host,and in himself an equal host he seemed;from his proud loins the high-born Claudian stemthrough Latium multiplies, since Roman powerwith Sabine first was wed. A cohort camefrom Amiternum and the olden wallof Cures, called Quirites even then;Eretum answered and Mutusca's hillwith olives clad, Velinus' flowery field,nomentum's fortress, the grim precipiceof Tetrica, Severus' upland fair,Casperia, Foruli, Himella's waves,Tiber and Fabaris, and wintry streamsof Nursia; to the same proud muster spedTuscan with Latin tribes, and loyal townsbeside whose walls ill-omened Allia flows.As numerous they moved as rolling wavesthat stir smooth Libyan seas, when in cold floodssinks grim Orion's star; or like the throngof clustering wheat-tops in the summer sun,near Hermus or on Lycia's yellowing plain:shields clashed; their strong tramp smote the trembling ground.

Now Agamemnon's kinsman, cruel foeto the mere name of Troy, Halaesus, yokesthe horses of his car and summons fortha thousand savage clans at Turnus' call :rude men whose mattocks to the Massic hillsbring Bacchus' bounty, or by graybeard siressent from Auruncan upland and the meadof Sidicinum; out of Cales cameits simple folk; and dwellers by the streamof many-shoaled Volturnus, close-alliedwith bold Saticulan or Oscan swains.Their arms are tapered javelins, which they wearbound by a coiling thong; a shield concealsthe left side, and they fight with crooked swords.

Nor shalt thou, Oebalus, depart unsung,whom minstrels say the nymph Sebethis boreto Telon, who in Capri was a kingwhen old and gray; but that disdaining sonquitted so small a seat, and conquering swayamong Sarrastian folk and those wide plainswatered by Sarnus' wave, became a kingover Celenna, Rufrae, Batulum,and where among her apple-orchards riseAbella's walls. All these, as Teutons use, hurl a light javelin; for helm they wearstripped cork-tree bark; the crescent of their shieldsis gleaming bronze, and gleaming bronze the sword.

Next Ufens, mountain-bred, from Nersae cameto join the war; of goodly fame was hefor prosperous arms: his Aequian people showno gentle mien, but scour the woods for prey,or, ever-armed, across the stubborn glebecompel the plough; though their chief pride and joyare rapine, violence, and plundered store.

Next after these, his brows and helmet boundwith noble olive, from Marruvium camea priest, brave Umbro, ordered to the fieldby King Archippus: o'er the viper's brood,and venomed river-serpents he had powerto scatter slumber with wide-waving handsand wizard-songs. His potent arts could soothetheir coiling rage and heal the mortal sting:but 'gainst a Trojan sword no drug had he,nor could his drowsy spells his flesh repair,nor gathered simples from the Marsic hills.Thee soon in wailing woods Anguitia mourned,thee, Fucinus, the lake of crystal wave,thee, many a mountain-tarn!