Book 5.315-326
The race begins. The Trojan Nisus takes the first lead. Salius follows him, and Euryalus is in third, with others behind.
Haec ubi dicta, locum capiunt, signoque repente
315
corripiunt spatia audito, limenque relinquunt,
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effusi nimbo similes, simul ultima signant.
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Primus abit longeque ante omnia corpora Nisus
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emicat, et ventis et fulminis ocior alis;
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proximus huic, longo sed proxumus intervallo,
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insequitur Salius; spatio post deinde relicto
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tertius Euryalus:
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Euryalumque Helymus sequitur; quo deinde sub ipso
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ecce volat calcemque terit iam calce Diores,
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incumbens umero, spatia et si plura supersint,
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transeat elapsus prior, ambiguumque relinquat.
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