308Nor does sluggish delay hold Turnus back, but he fiercely sweeps his whole line against the Teucrians and halts facing them on the shore. 310The trumpets sound. 310Aeneas first attacked the rustic squadrons, an omen for the battle, and laid low the Latins, killing Theron, the biggest of the men, who went for Aeneas unprovoked: through the bronze links and through the tunic stiff with gold he pierces his exposed side with his sword. 315Then he strikes Lichas, cut from his mother's womb when she was already dead, and consecrated to you, Phoebus: to what end was he allowed as an infant to escape the hazard of the steel? 317Not far off he threw down to Death tough Cisseus and huge Gyas, who felled whole ranks with their clubs: Hercules' arms did them no good, nor their strong hands, nor their father Melampus, companion of Alcides as long as the earth furnished him heavy labours.
322Look, as Pharus hurls idle words, he whirls a javelin and plants it in his shouting mouth. 324You too, unhappy Cydon, while you followed Clytius, your new joy, his cheeks golden with their first down, laid low by the Dardan right hand, free of the loves you always had for young men, would be lying, pitiable, had not a close-packed band of brothers come to meet him, the sons of Phorcus, seven in number, and they hurl seven spears; 330some rebound vainly from his helmet and shield, others, grazing his body, kindly Venus turned aside. 332Aeneas addresses faithful Achates: 'Supply me with spears: my right hand will not hurl a single one in vain against the Rutulians of those that stood in the bodies of the Greeks on the plains of Ilium.' 335Then he seizes a great spear and throws: it flies and pierces the bronze of Maeon's shield and bursts through breastplate and breast together.
338His brother Alcanor comes up and supports his falling brother with his right hand: the spear, sent through his arm, flies straight on and keeps its bloody course, and the right hand hung dying from the shoulder by the sinews. 342Then Numitor, snatching the javelin from his brother's body, aimed at Aeneas; 343but he was not permitted to pierce him in turn, and grazed the thigh of great Achates.