variosque per agmina vultus induitur: nunc Pisaeis e milibus unus, nunc Pylius, nunc ore Lacon, hostesque propinquos adiurat turmasque metu consternat inani.
He takes on various guises as he goes through the host, now one of Pisas thousands, now a Pylian, now a Laconian by the look of him, and swears that the enemy are close, confounding the troops with vain alarm.
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