Book 11.498-506
Camilla meets Turnus and offers to attack the Trojan and Etruscan cavalry while Turnus defends the walls.
Obvia cui Volscorum acie comitante Camilla
498
occurrit portisque ab equo regina sub ipsis
499
desiluit, quam tota cohors imitata relictis
500
ad terram defluxit equis; tum talia fatur:
501
“Turne, sui merito si qua est fiducia forti,
502
audeo et Aeneadum promitto occurrere turmae
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solaque Tyrrhenos equites ire obvia contra.
504
Me sine prima manu temptare pericula belli
505
tu pedes ad muros subsiste et moenia serva.”
506