ac velut ille canum morsu de montibus altis actus aper, multos Vesulus quem pinifer annos defendit multosque palus Laurentia silva pascit harundinea, postquam inter retia ventum est, substitit infremuitque ferox et inhorruit armos, nec cuiquam irasci propiusve accedere virtus, sed iaculis tutisque procul clamoribus instant; ille autem impavidus partis cunctatur in omnis dentibus infrendens et tergo decutit hastas: haud aliter, iustae quibus est Mezentius irae, non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro, missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt.
And just as a boar, driven by sharp-toothed hounds from mountain heights, one which pine-crowned Vesulus has sheltered for many years, or one which for many years the Laurentine marsh pastures on thick-growing reeds, when it reaches the nets, halts, snorts savagely, and raises its hackles, and no one is brave enough to rage or come near it, but all at safe distance assail it with darts and shouts, but undaunted it halts, turning in all directions with gnashing teeth, and shakes the javelins from its back'just so, of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.