"Now, sister, now the Fates prevail! no more for tarrying try. Nay, let us follow where the God, where hard Fate calleth me! Doomed am I to Æneas' hand; doomed, howso sore it be, To die the death; ah, sister, now thou seest me shamed no more: Now let me wear the fury through ere yet my time is o'er." 680 He spake, and from the chariot leapt adown upon the mead, And left his sister lone in grief amidst the foe to speed, Amidst the spears, and breaketh through the midmost press of fight, E'en as a headlong stone sweeps down from off the mountain-height, Torn by the wind; or drifting rain hath washed it from its hold, Or loosed, maybe, it slippeth down because the years grow old: Wild o'er the cliffs with mighty leap goes down that world of stone, And bounds o'er earth, and woods and herds and men-folk rolleth on Amidst its wrack: so Turnus through the broken battle broke Unto the very city-walls, where earth was all a-soak 690 With plenteous blood, and air beset with whistling of the shafts; There with his hand he maketh sign, and mighty speech he wafts: "Forbear, Rutulians! Latin men, withhold the points of fight! Whatever haps, the hap is mine; I, I alone, of right Should cleanse you of the broken troth, and doom of sword-edge face." So from the midst all men depart, and leave an empty space; But now the Father Æneas hath hearkened Turnus' name, And backward from the walls of war and those high towers he came. He casts away all tarrying, sets every deed aside, And thundering in his battle-gear rejoicing doth he stride: 700 As Athos great, as Eryx great, great as when roaring goes Amid the quaking oaken woods and glory lights the snows, And Father Apennine uprears his head amidst the skies. Then Trojan and Rutulian men turn thither all their eyes, And all the folk of Italy, and they that hold the wall, And they that drive against its feet the battering engines' fall All men do off their armour then. Amazed Latinus stands To see two mighty heroes, born in such wide-sundered lands, Meet thus to try what deed of doom in meeting swords may be.