1 We scatter, pallid at the sight.
2 We go down, overwhelmed by numbers.
3 We disembark and worship Apollo's town.
4 We sunder the walls, and lay open the inner city.
5 We all follow him up, and charge with massed arms.
6 We put out from harbour, and lands and towns sink away.
7 We are not come to deal slaughter through Libyan homes, or to drive plundered spoils to the coast.
8 We in a flutter of affright shook out the blazing hair and quenched the holy fires with spring water.
9 We renew our courage, to aid the royal dwelling, to support them with our succour, and swell the force of the conquered.
10 We, the wretched people, to whom that day was our last, hang the shrines of the gods with festal boughs throughout the city.
11 We rush in and encircle them with serried arms, and cut them down dispersedly in their ignorance of the ground and seizure of panic.
12 We offer bubbling bowls of warm milk and cups of consecrated blood, and lay the spirit to rest in her tomb, and with loud voice utter the last call.
13 We advance, mingling with the Grecians, under a protection not our own, and join many a battle with those we meet amid the blind night; many a Greek we send down to hell.
14 We tear ourselves away, I and Iphitus and Pelias, Iphitus now stricken in age, Pelias halting too under the wound of Ulysses, called forward by the clamour to Priam's house.
15 We, thy children, we whom thou beckonest to the heights of heaven, our fleet miserably cast away for a single enemy's anger, are betrayed and severed far from the Italian coasts.
16 We sink low on the ground, and a voice is borne to our ears: "Stubborn race of Dardanus, the same land that bore you by parentage of old shall receive you again on her bountiful breast."
17 We watch it slide over the palace roof, leaving the mark of its pathway, and bury its brilliance in the wood of Ida; the long drawn track shines, and the region all about fumes with sulphur.
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