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Deaths Their arms, and armies under their command;
What soldiers follow'd, and what heroes led.
What fame.html">fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
Scorn sate upon his brows, and sour disdain,
He brings to Turnus' aid his baffled host.
Rode in the rank, and next.html">next his sullen sire;
Of manly mien, and features of the face.
With fates averse a thousand men he led:
Himself well worthy of a happier throne.
Next Aventinus drives his chariot round
Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field;
A hundred serpents hiss about the brims;
By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs;
A mortal woman mixing with a god.
The triple Geryon, drove from conquer'd Spain
On Tuscan Tiber's flow'ry banks they fed.
The priestess Rhea found, and forc'd to love.
And poles with pointed steel their foes in battle gore.
In salvage pomp; a lion's hide he wears;
The teeth and gaping jaws severely grin.
He strides into the hall, a horrid guest.
Then two twin brothers from fair Tibur came,
Fierce Coras and Catillus, void of fear:
Like cloud-born Centaurs, from the mountain's height
They rush along; the rattling woods give way;
Whom fame reports the son of Mulciber:
A shepherd and a king at once he reigns,
His own Praeneste sends a chosen band,
Besides the succor which cold Anien yields,
Anagnia fat, and Father Amasene-
nor.html">Nor arms they wear, nor swords and bucklers wield,
But whirl from leathern slings huge balls of lead,
The left foot naked, when they march to fight,
Messapus next, (great Neptune was his sire,)
In pomp appears, and with his ardor warms
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