723Next, Agamemnon's man Halaesus, enemy of the Trojan name, yokes his horses to his chariot and sweeps along a thousand fierce peoples for Turnus: those who turn with hoes the Massic land, fruitful for Bacchus, and those whom the Auruncan fathers sent from their high hills, and those who leave the Sidicine plains nearby and Cales, and the dweller by the shallow river Volturnus, and together with them the rough Saticulan and the band of the Oscans. 730Their weapons are smooth throwing-clubs, but it is their custom to fit these with a pliant thong; 732a light shield covers their left side; for close fighting they have curved swords.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.723–732
Halaesus and the Campanian peoples
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Vergil, Aeneid VII. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.