1 The Rutulians pour in when they see the entrance open.
2 Thou seest how confident in fortune the Rutulians stand.
3 So speaks he, and his Rutulians draw back from a level space at his bidding.
4 Then indeed the Rutulians clamorously greet the omen, and their hands flash out.
5 Thou, Volusus,' he cries, 'bid the Volscian battalions arm, and lead out the Rutulians.
6 Their cry rises to heaven, and in turn the routed Rutulians give backward in flight over the dusty fields.
7 When he uttered these words and called the gods to hear his vows, the Rutulians stir one another up to arms.
8 Meanwhile the Rutulians press round all the gates, dealing grim slaughter and girdling the walls with flame.
9 The victorious Rutulians, with their spoils and the plunder regained, bore dead Volscens weeping to the camp.
10 Nor do the bold Rutulians care longer to continue the blind fight, but strive to clear the rampart with missiles.
11 Auruncans and Rutulians sow on it, work the stiff hills with the ploughshare, and pasture them where they are roughest.
12 Sunk in sleep and wine, the Rutulians are silent; we have stealthily spied the open ground that lies in the path through the gate next the sea.
13 Twice the Tuscans turn and drive the Rutulians towards the town; twice they are repelled, and look back behind them from cover of their shields.
14 The Rutulians stood dumb: Messapus himself is terror-stricken among his disordered cavalry; even the stream of Tiber pauses with hoarse murmur, and recoils from sea.
15 But long ere this the Rutulians deemed the battle unequal, and their hearts are stirred in changeful motion; and now the more, as they discern nigher that in ill-matched strength.
16 But now they fail; for where the vast mass presses close, the Teucrians roll a huge block tumbling down that makes a wide gap in the Rutulians and crashes through their armour-plating.
17 Now indeed Rutulians and Trojans and all Italy turned in emulous gaze, and they who held the high city, and they whose ram was battering the foundations of the wall, and unarmed their shoulders.
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