These eyes beheld Murranus bite the ground: Mighty the man, and mighty was the wound. I heard my d...
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What chiefs and champions fell on either side, In combat slain, or by what deaths they died; Whom ...
Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon t...
Then, gath'ring sound, they murmur more aloud. Now, side to side, they measure with their eyes The...
Our single swords the quarrel shall decide, And to the victor be the beauteous bride." He said, an...
Charg'd with my message, to Camilla go, And say I sent thee to the shades below, An honor undeserv...
Who trust your courser's strength, and not your own? Forego the vantage of your horse, alight, And...
Thro' air she flies a suppliant to thy shrine; And the first weapons that she knows, are thine.' H...
As never more in fields to meet the foe; Then I conclude for peace: 't is time to treat, And lie l...
How high he held his shield, and rose at ev'ry blow! Had Troy produc'd two more his match in might,...
Prelude of bloody fields, and fights to come! Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav...
To shield their shadows from contempt below. That conquer'd earth be theirs, for which they fought,...
"Why wilt thou rush to certain death, and rage In rash attempts, beyond thy tender age, Betray'd b...
Or see Laurentum's lofty tow'rs again? What will they say of their deserting chief The war was min...
Apollo's priest, Emonides, was near; His holy fillets on his front appear; Glitt'ring in arms, he ...