XXIV ``Herminius！ Aulus greets thee； He bids thee come with speed, To help our central bettle, For sore is there our need； There wars the youngest Tar...
XXV Herminius beat his bosom： But never a word he spake. He clapped his hand on Auster's mane, He gave the reins a shake. Away, away, went Auster,...
XXVI Right glad were all the Romans Who, in that hour of dread, Against great odds bare up the war Around Valerius dead, When from the south the cheer...
XXVII Mamilius spied Herminius, And dashed across the way. ``Herminius！ I have sought thee Through many a bloody day. One of us two, Herminius, Shall ...
XXVIII All round them paused the battle, While met in mortal fray The Roman and the Tusculan, The horses black and gray. Herminius smote Mamilius Thro...
XXIX Fast, fast, with heels wild spurning, The dark-gray charger fled： He burst through ranks of fighting men, He sprang o'er heaps of dead. His b...
XXX But, like a graven image, Black Auster kept his place, And ever wistfully he looked Into his master's face. The raven-mane that daily, With pa...
XXXI And Aulus the Dictator Stroked Auster's raven mane, With heed he looked unto the girths, With heed unto the rein. ``Now bear me well, black A...
XXXII So spake he； and was buckling Tighter black Auster's band, When he was aware of a princely pair That rode at his right hand. So like they we...
XXXIII And all who saw them trembled, And pale grew every cheek； And Aulus the Dictator Scarce gathered voice to speak. ``Say by what name men call yo...