Book 5.500-508
Hippocoon goes first and strikes the mast. Mnestheus goes next.
Tum validis flexos incurvant viribus arcus
500
pro se quisque viri, et depromunt tela pharetris.
501
Primaque per caelum, nervo stridente, sagitta
502
Hyrtacidae iuvenis volucres diverberat auras;
503
et venit, adversique infigitur arbore mali.
504
Intremuit malus, timuitque exterrita pennis
505
ales, et ingenti sonuerunt omnia plausu.
506
Post acer Mnestheus adducto constitit arcu,
507
alta petens, pariterque oculos telumque tetendit.
508
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