Aeneid, lines 420-444

illi etiam, si quos obscura nocte per umbram

Even those, whoever we routed in the dark night through the shadow,

fudimus insidiis totaque agitavimus urbe,

with our traps, and drove off throughout the whole city,

apparent; primi clipeos mentitaque tela

appeared; they were the first to recognise our shields and deceiving arms

agnoscunt atque ora sono discordia signant.

and they recognised that our speech was different in sound.

ilicet obruimur numero, primusque Coroebus

Immediately we were overwhelmed by the number, and first Coroebus

Penelei dextra divae armipotentis ad aram

fell at the altar of the armed goddess by the right hand of Peneleus,

procumbit; cadit et Rhipeus, iustissimus unus

Rhipeus fell too, he who was the most remarkably just man

qui fuit in Teucris et servantissimus aequi

among the Trojans and the most watchful of fairness

(dis aliter visum); pereunt Hypanisque Dymasque

(it seemed otherwise to the gods); and Hypanis and Dymas perished,

confixi a sociis; nec te tua plurima, Panthu,

having been pierced by their allies; nor did your very great piety, Panthus,

labentem pietas nec Apollinis infula texit.

cover you as you toppled, nor did the sacred headbands of Apollo.

Iliaci cineres et flamma extrema meorum,

Trojan ashes and the last flame of my people,

testor, in occasu vestro nec tela nec ullas

I call upon you as a witness, that in your downfall I avoided neither weapons nor any

vitavisse vices Danaum et, si fata fuissent

hazards of the Greeks and, if my fate had been

ut caderem, meruisse manu. divellimur inde,

that I should fall, that I earned it by my own hand. From there we were separated,

Iphitus et Pelias mecum (quorum Iphitus aevo

Iphitus and Pelias with me (of whom Iphitus was now slower due to age,

iam gravior, Pelias et vulnere tardus Ulixi),

and Pelias slowed down due to a wound from Ulysses),

protinus ad sedes Priami clamore vocati.

went straight to the house of Priam, summoned with a shout.

hic vero ingentem pugnam, ceu cetera nusquam

Here indeed we saw a huge fight, as if there were no other battles anywhere,

bella forent, nulli tota morerentur in urbe,

as if no-one was dying in the whole city,

sic Martem indomitum Danaosque ad tecta ruentis

thus we saw rampant war and the Greeks, rushing to the rooftops,

cernimus obsessumque acta testudine limen.

and the threshold, besieged by a formed-up siege weapon.

haerent parietibus scalae postisque sub ipsos

Ladders clung to the domestic walls and they strove up the rungs

nituntur gradibus clipeosque ad tela sinistris

right beside the doors themselves, and in their left hands they held out their shields as protection against the weapons,

protecti obiciunt, prensant fastigia dextris.

they grasped the roof-gables with their right.