Book 10.796-810
Lausus rushes to defend his father and his allies throw spears at Aeneas. Aeneas is forced to take cover like a farmer in a hailstorm or a traveler in the rain.
proripuit iuvenis seseque immiscuit armis
796
iamque adsurgentis dextra plagamque ferentis
797
Aeneae subiit mucronem ipsumque morando
798
sustinuit. Socii magno clamore sequuntur,
799
dum genitor nati parma protectus abiret,
800
telaque coniciunt proturbantque eminus hostem
801
missilibus. Furit Aeneas tectusque tenet se.
802
Ac velut effusa si quando grandine nimbi
803
praecipitant, omnis campis diffugit arator
804
omnis et agricola et tuta latet arce viator,
805
aut amnis ripis aut alti fornice saxi,
806
dum pluit in terris, ut possint sole reducto
807
exercere diem: sic obrutus undique telis
808
Aeneas nubem belli, dum detonet omnis,
809
sustinet et Lausum increpitat Lausoque minatur:
810