348Then father Aeneas said: 'Your prizes remain secure for you, boys, and no one changes the order of the palm; 350let me be allowed to pity the misfortune of a blameless friend.' 351So speaking, he gives Salius the huge hide of a Gaetulian lion, heavy with shaggy hair and gilded claws. 353At this Nisus said: 'If the prizes for the defeated are so great, and you pity those who fell, what gifts worthy of Nisus will you give, who earned the first crown by merit, had not hostile fortune carried me off as it did Salius?' 357And as he said this he was displaying his face and his limbs foul with wet dung.
358The excellent father laughed at him and ordered a shield to be brought out, the work of Didymaon, taken down by the Greeks from the sacred doorpost of Neptune. 361With this splendid gift he presents the noble youth;