705cloud of hoarse birds was being driven to the shores. 706Look, Clausus, of the ancient blood of the Sabines, leading a great column and himself the equal of a great column, from whom the Claudian tribe and family now spreads through Latium, since Rome was given in part to the Sabines. 710With him a huge cohort from Amiternum, and the ancient Quirites, the whole band of Eretum and of olive-bearing Mutusca; 712those who live in the city of Nomentum, in the Rosean fields of Velinus, on the crags of rugged Tetrica and Mount Severus, Casperia and Foruli and the river Himella; those who drink the Tiber and the Fabaris, those whom cold Nursia sent, and the Hortine levies and the Latin peoples, and those whom the Allia, ill-omened name, flows between and divides: as many as the waves that roll on the Libyan sea when fierce Orion sets in the wintry waves; 720or as the thick ears of corn scorched by the early summer sun, either on the plain of Hermus or in the yellow fields of Lycia.
722Shields clang, and the earth is terrified by the tramp of feet.