Podalirius Alsum pastorem primaque acie per tela ruentem ense sequens nudo superimminet; ille securi adversi frontem mediam mentumque reducta disicit et sparso late rigat arma cruore.
Podalirius, pursuing with naked steel, towers over the shepherd Alsus as in foremost line he rushes through the darts; but Alsus, swinging back his axe, cuts through the middle of his enemys brow and chin, and drenches his armour with widely spattered gore.