1 Mnestheus gives Nisus the shaggy spoils of a lion's hide; faithful Aletes exchanges his helmet.
2 We are not come to deal slaughter through Libyan homes, or to drive plundered spoils to the coast.
3 These are the spoils of a haughty king, the first-fruits won from him; my hands have set Mezentius here.
4 Mine own hand shall find me death: the foe will be merciful and seek my spoils: light is the loss of a tomb.
5 Instead of gold to clasp her tresses, instead of the long skirted gown, a tiger's spoils hang down her back.
6 The victorious Rutulians, with their spoils and the plunder regained, bore dead Volscens weeping to the camp.
7 So does Rhipeus, so Dymas in like wise, and all our men in delight arm themselves one by one in the fresh spoils.
8 They mutually recognise the spoils, Messapus' shining helmet and the decorations that cost such sweat to win back.
9 Him one day, thy care done, thou shalt welcome to heaven loaded with Eastern spoils; to him too shall vows be addressed.
10 For princely Alcides the avenger came glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
11 If you allow us to use the chance towards seeking Aeneas in Pallanteum town, you will soon descry us here at hand with the spoils of the great slaughter we have dealt.
12 Noble indeed is the fame and splendid the spoils you win, thou and that boy of thine, and mighty the renown of deity, if two gods have vanquished one woman by treachery.
13 I move on, and revisit the citadel and Priam's dwelling; where now in the spacious porticoes of Juno's sanctuary, Phoenix and accursed Ulysses, chosen sentries, were guarding the spoil.
14 Then some fling on the fire Latin spoils stripped from the slain, helmets and shapely swords, bridles and glowing chariot wheels; others familiar gifts, the very shields and luckless weapons of the dead.
15 The others set to the spoil they are to feast upon, tear chine from ribs and lay bare the flesh; some cut it into pieces and pierce it still quivering with spits; others plant cauldrons on the beach and feed them with flame.
16 Thrice had Achilles whirled Hector round the walls of Troy, and was selling the lifeless body for gold; then at last he heaves a loud and heart-deep groan, as the spoils, as the chariot, as the dear body met his gaze, and Priam outstretching unarmed hands.
17 Thee too, Ufens, mountainous Nersae sent forth to battle, of noble fame and prosperous arms, whose race on the stiff Aequiculan clods is rough beyond all other, and bred to continual hunting in the woodland; they till the soil in arms, and it is ever their delight to drive in fresh spoils and live on plunder.
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