Æneis erects a trophy of the spoils of Mezentius;

grants a truce for burying the dead ; and sends home the body of Pallas with great folemnity. Latius calls a council to propose offers of peace to Æneas, which occafions great animosity betwixt Turnus and Drances : in the mean time there is a sharp engagement of the horse; wherein Camilla fignalizes her." felf; is killed : and the Latine troops are intirely defeated.

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CARCE had the rosy morning rais'd her head

Above the waves, and left her watery bed;
The pious chief whom double cares attend
For his unbury'd soldiers, and his friend:
Yet first to heaven perform’d a victor's vow : 5
He bar'd an ancient oak of all her bouglis :
Then on a riting ground the trunk he plac'd ;
Which with the spoils of liis dead foe he grac'd.
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The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn,
Now on a naked shag in triumph borne,
Was hung on high; and glitter'd from afar :
A trophy sacred to the god of war.
Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood,
Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd with blood;
His brazen buckler on the left was seen ;

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Truncheons of shiver'd lances hung between :
And on the right was plac'd his corslet, bord;
And to the neck was ty'd his unavailing sword.
A crowd of chiefs inclose the godlike man:
Who thus, confpicuous in the midst, began:

Our toils, my friends, are crown'd with fure success: The greater part perform’d, atchieve the less. Now follow.chearful to the trembling town; Press but an entrance, and presume it won. Fear is no more : for fierce Mezentius lies,

25 As the firft fruits.of war, a sacrifice. Turnus shall stand extended on the pain ; And in this omen is already slain. Prepar'd in arms, pursue your happy chance : | That none unwarn’d, may plead his ignorance: And I, at heaven's appointed hour, may

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Your walike ensigns waving in the wind.
Mean time the rites and funeral pomps prepare,
Due to your dead companions of the war:
The last respect the living can bestow,

35 "To nield their shadows from contempt below. That conquer'd earth be theirs for which they fought; And which for us with their own blood they bought.

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But first the corpfe of our unhappy friend,
To the fad city of Evander fend:

-40 Who not inglorious in his age's bloom Was hurry'd hence by too severe a doom.

Thus, weeping while he spoke, he took his way, Wherc, now in death, lamented Pallas lay : Acoetes watch'd the corpse; whose youth deserv'd 4.5 The father's trust, and now the son he serv'd With equal faith, but less auspicious care: Th' attendants of the slain his sorrow share. A troop of Trojans mix'd with these appear, And mourning matrons with dishevel'd hair. Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry; All beat their breasts, and echoes rend the sky. They rear his drooping forehead from the ground; But when Æneas view'd the grily wound Which Pallas in his inanly bosom bore,

55 And the fair flesh diftain'd with purple gore : First, melting into tears, the pious man Deplor'd so sad a fight, then thus began :

Unhappy youth! when fortune gave the rest Of my full wishes, the refus’d the best!

60 She came; but brought not thee along, to bless My longing eyes, and share in my success : She grudg'd thy fafe return, the triumphs due To prosperous valour, in the public view. Not thus I promis’d, when my father lent Thy needless succour with a fad confent; Embrac'd me parting for th’ Etrurian land, And sept ine to posiels a large command.

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He warn'd, and from his own experience told,
Our foes were warlike, disciplin'd, and bold :
And now perhaps, in hopes of thy return,
Rich odours on his loaded altars burn;
While we, with vain officious pomp, prepare
To lend him back his portion of the war;
A bloody breathless body: which can owe 75
No farther debt, but to the powers below.
The wretched father, ere his race is

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Shall view the funeral honours of his fon.
These are my triumphs of the Latian war;
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And yet, unhappy Sire, thou shalt not see
A son, whose death disgrac'd his ancestry;
Thou shalt not blush, old man, however griev'd:
Thy Pallas no dishonest wound receiv'd.
He dy'd no death to make thee wilh, too late,
Thou had it not liv'd to see his shameful fate.
But what a champion has th’ Ausonian coast,
And what a friend haft thou, Ascanius, loit!

Thus having mourn'd, he gave the word around,
Toʻraise the breathlet's body from the ground;
And chose a thousand horse, the flower of all
His warlike troops, wait the funeral :
To bear him back, and share Evander's grief
(A well-becoming, but a weak relief).
Of oaken twigs they twist an easy bier;

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Then on their shoulders the fad burden rear.
The body on this rural herse is born,
Strew'd leaves and funeral greens the bier adorn.

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