Aen. 9.756Diffugiunt versī trepidā formīdine Trōēs:
et sī continuō victōrem ea cūra subīsset,
rumpere claustra manū sociōsque immittere portīs,
ultimus ille diēs bellō gentīque fuisset;The Trojans turn and scatter in trembling fear: and if at once the thought had come to the victor to break the bars with his hand and let his comrades in at the gates, that would have been the last day for the war and for the nation; Aen. 9.760sed furor ārdentem caedisque īnsāna cupīdō
ēgit in adversōs.but rage and a mad desire for slaughter drove him, burning, against his opponents. Aen. 9.762Prīncipiō Phalerim et succīsō poplite Gygēn
excipit;First he catches Phaleris, and Gyges, hamstringing him; Aen. 9.763hinc raptās fugientibus ingerit hastās
in tergum, Iūnō vīrēs animumque ministrat;then he seizes their spears and hurls them into the backs of the fleeing men; Juno supplies strength and courage; Aen. 9.765addit Halym comitem et cōnfīxā Phēgea parmā,
ignārōs deinde in mūrīs Mārtemque cientīs
Alcandrumque Haliumque Noēmonaque Prytanimque.he adds Halys as their companion, and Phegeus, pierced through his shield, then, unaware on the walls and stirring up the fight, Alcander and Halius, Noemon and Prytanis.
Aen. 9.768Lyncea tendentem contrā sociōsque vocantem
vibrantī gladiō cōnīxus ab aggere dexter
770occupat;Lynceus, as he comes against him and calls on his comrades, he forestalls from the rampart on the right, lunging with his flashing sword; Aen. 9.770huic ūnō dēsectum comminus ictū
cum galeā longē iacuit caput.his head, cut off by a single blow at close quarters, lay far away with its helmet. Aen. 9.771Inde ferārum
vāstātōrem Amycum, quō nōn fēlīcior alter
ungere tēla manū ferrumque armāre venēnō,
et Clytium Aeolidēn et amīcum Crēthea Mūsīs,
775Crēthea Mūsārum comitem, cui carmina semper
et citharae cordī numerōsque intendere nervīs.Next Amycus, destroyer of wild beasts, than whom no other was more skilled at anointing darts and arming steel with poison, and Clytius, son of Aeolus, and Cretheus, friend of the Muses, Cretheus, companion of the Muses, whose heart always delighted in songs and the lyre and in stretching rhythms on the strings.