450The victorious Rutulians, possessed of plunder and spoils, were carrying the lifeless Volcens into the camp, weeping. 452Nor was the mourning less in the camp, when Rhamnes was found bloodless and so many leaders slain in one slaughter, and Serranus and Numa. 454There is a huge crowding round the bodies themselves and the men half-dead, and the place fresh with warm slaughter, and the streams full of foaming blood. 457Among themselves they recognise the spoils, and the shining helmet of Messapus, and the trappings won back with much sweat.
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Vergil · Aeneid IX
Aeneid 9.450–458
The Rutulians mourn their dead
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Vergil, Aeneid IX. 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.