836But Opis, guardian of Trivia, has long been sitting high on the mountain tops and watching the battle, undismayed. 838And when far off, in the midst of the shouting of raging young men, she caught sight of Camilla punished with a grim death, she groaned and uttered these words from the depths of her heart: 'Alas, maiden, too cruel, too cruel the penalty you have paid for trying to provoke the Teucrians in war! 843Nor has it profited you to have worshipped Diana in the thickets in solitude, or to have carried our arrows on your shoulder. 845Yet your queen has not left you unhonoured now at the very end in death, nor will this death be without renown among the nations, nor will you suffer the name of one unavenged.
848For whoever has violated your body with a wound shall pay with a deserved death.' 849Beneath a high mountain there was a huge tomb of King Dercennus, an ancient Laurentine, made of a mound of earth and covered with shady holm-oak: here the most beautiful goddess first sets herself down with a swift swoop and watches for Arruns from the high mound. 854When she saw him exulting in spirit and swelling with vanity, 'Why,' she says, 'do you go off the other way? 855Turn your steps this way, come this way to your death, to receive the reward Camilla deserves. 857Shall even you die by the weapons of Diana?' 858she spoke, and the Thracian maid drew a swift arrow from her gilded quiver and in anger stretched her bow, and drew it far, until the curved ends met and with her hands now level she touched with the left the point of the iron, with the right and the string her breast.
863At once and together Arruns heard the whir of the weapon and the sounding air, and the iron stuck fast in his body. 865Him, breathing his last and groaning his final groans, his comrades forget and leave in the unknown dust of the plains; Opis is borne on her wings to heavenly Olympus.