345Here Clausus from Cures comes, trusting in his youthful body, and strikes Dryops from a distance with his stiff spear, driven hard under the chin, and as he speaks robs him at once of voice and life, piercing his throat; 348and he strikes the earth with his forehead and vomits thick gore from his mouth. 350Three Thracians too, of the highest race of Boreas, and three whom their father Idas and their homeland Ismara send, he lays low by various fates. 352Halaesus runs up, and the Auruncan bands; Neptune's son also comes up, Messapus, famous for his horses. 354Now these strive to drive them back, now those; 355the struggle is on the very threshold of Ausonia.
356As in the great sky warring winds raise battles with equal spirit and strength; 358they themselves do not yield to one another, nor do the clouds, nor the sea; 359the fight is long in doubt; all things stand locked against each other: just so the Trojan lines and the Latin lines clash; 361foot sticks fast to foot, and man presses close on man.