672Pandarus and Bitias, sprung from Idaean Alcanor, whom Iaera of the woods reared in the grove of Jupiter, young men as tall as their native firs and mountains, open the gate which had been entrusted to them by their leader's command, relying on their courage, and of their own accord invite the enemy within the walls. 677They themselves stand inside, right and left, before the towers, armed with steel, their lofty heads gleaming with crests: as round the flowing rivers, whether on the banks of the Po or by the pleasant Athesis, twin oaks rise in the air, lift their unshorn heads to the sky and nod with their lofty tops.
683The Rutulians burst into the entrance as soon as they saw it open: at once Quercens and Aquiculus, handsome in his armour, and Tmarus, headlong in spirit, and Haemon, son of Mars, with all their columns either turned and fled or laid down their lives on the very threshold of the gate. 688Then the anger grows greater in their warring hearts; 689and now the Trojans, gathered together, mass in the same place, and dare to fight hand to hand and to run out further.