Book 12.697-704
Aeneas leaves the siege of the city to find Turnus. He is like a mountain as he thunders with his weapons.
At pater Aeneas audito nomine Turni
697
deserit et muros et summas deserit arces
698
praecipitatque moras omnis, opera omnia rumpit,
699
laetitia exsultans, horrendumque intonat armis;
700
quantus Athos aut quantus Eryx aut ipse coruscis
701
cum fremit ilicibus quantus gaudetque nivali
702
vertice se attollens pater Appenninus ad auras.
703
Iam vero et Rutuli certatim et Troes et omnes
704