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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book II Chapter 18: The attack becomes general | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Where a battle raged as if save this no conflict else were known, and all Troy's dying brave were mustered there. There we beheld the war-god [Note 1] unconfined; The Greek besiegers to the roof-tops fled; or, with shields tortoise-back, the gates assailed. Ladders were on the walls; and round by round, up the huge bulwark as they fight their way, the shielded left-hand thwarts the falling spears, the right to every vantage closely clings. The Trojans hurl whole towers and roof-tops down upon the mounting foe; for well they see that the last hour is come, and with what arms the dying must resist. Rich gilded beams, with many a beauteous blazon of old time, go crashing down. Men armed with naked swords defend the inner doors in close array. Note 1: war-god = Mars Event: The fall of Troy |
438- hic uero ingentem pugnam, ceu cetera nusquam bella forent, nulli tota morerentur in urbe, sic Martem indomitum Danaosque ad tecta ruentis cernimus obsessumque acta testudine limen. haerent parietibus scalae postisque sub ipsos nituntur gradibus clipeosque ad tela sinistris protecti obiciunt, prensant fastigia dextris. Dardanidae contra turris ac tota domorum culmina conuellunt; his se, quando ultima cernunt, extrema iam in morte parant defendere telis, auratasque trabes, ueterum decora alta parentum, deuoluunt; alii strictis mucronibus imas obsedere fores, has seruant agmine denso. instaurati animi regis succurrere tectis auxilioque leuare uiros uimque addere uictis. |