XCV. Lo, Clausus next; a mighty host he led, Himself a host. From Sabine sires he came, And Latium thence the Claudian house o'erspread, When Romans first with Sabines dared to claim Coequal lordship and a share of fame. With Amiternus came Eretum's band; From fair Velinus' dewy fields they came, From olive-crowned Mutusca, from the land Where proud Nomentum's towers the fruitful plains command. XCVI. From the rough crags of Tetrica came down Her hosts; they came from tall Severus' flank, From Foruli and fam'd Casperia's town, Wash'd by Himella's waves, and those who drank Of Fabaris, or dwelt on Tiber's bank. Those, too, whom Nursia sendeth from the snows, And Horta's sons, in many an ordered rank, And tribes of Latin origin, and those Between whose parted fields th' ill-omened Allia flows. XCVII. As roll the billows on the Libyan deep, When fierce Orion in the wintry main Sinks, dark with tempests, and the waves upleap; As, parched with suns of summer, stands the grain On Hermus' fields, or Lycia's golden plain; So countless swarm the multitudes around Bold Clausus, and the wide air rings again With echoes, as their clashing shields resound, And with the tramp of feet they shake the trembling ground. XCVIII. There Agamemnon's kinsman yokes his steeds, Halaesus. Trojans were his foes, his friend Was Turnus. Lo, a thousand tribes he leads; Those who on Massic hills the vineyards tend, Those whom Auruncans from their mountains send. From Sidicinum and her neighbouring plain, From Cales, from Volturnus' shoals they wend. From steep Saticulum the sturdy swain, Fierce for the fray, comes down and joins the Oscan train. XCIX. Light barbs they fling, from pliant thongs of hide, A leathern target o'er the left is strung, And short, curved daggers the close fight decide. Nor, OEbalus, those gallant hosts among, Shalt thou go nameless, and thy praise unsung, Thou, from old Telon, as the tale hath feigned, And beauteous Sebethis, the wood-nymph, sprung, O'er Teleboan Caprea when he reigned; But Caprea's narrow realm proud OEbalus disdained. C. Far stretched his rule; Sarrastians owned his sway, And they, whose lands the Sarnian waters drain, And they, who till Celenna's fields, and they Whom Batulum and Rufrae's walls contain, And where through apple-orchards o'er the plain Shines fair Abella. Deftly can they wield Their native arms; the Teuton's lance they strain; Bark helmets guard them, from the cork-tree peeled, And brazen are their swords, and brazen every shield.