P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid 10.714–720

None of the Etruscans dare engage Mezentius at close quarters, pelting him from a distance instead; then Acron appears, a Greek exile from Corythus, still in his wedding finery.

 

Tier 1

Nullo in alio modo viri Mezentium petunt, viri quibus Mezentius est causa iusta irae, non est animus ulli Tyrrhenae currere contra Mezentium stricto gladio; Tyrrheni Mezentium missilibus et magna clamore longe petunt:

Mezentius autem sine timore consistit in omnes partes, movens dentes super dentes, et de tergo hastas quatit.

Acron, vir Graecus, venerat de antiquis finibus Corythi, fugitivus linquens imperfectos hymenaeos.

Written by Robert Amstutz

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