hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae, ire prior Pallas, si qua fors adiuvet ausum viribus imparibus, magnumque ita ad aethera fatur: per patris hospitium et mensas, quas advena adisti, te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis.
But Pallas, when he thought his foe within range of a spear-cast, moved forward first, in the hope that chance would aid the venture of his ill-matched strength, and thus to great heaven he cries: By my fathers welcome, and the table to which you came as a stranger, I beseech you, Alcides, aid my great enterprise.