Book 9.349-358
The pair of Trojans approach to kill more sleeping Italians before Nisus notices that dawn is near. They leave behind many spoils of war.
Purpuream vomit ille animam et cum sanguine mixta
349
vina refert moriens; hic furto fervidus instat.
350
Iamque ad Messapi socios tendebat; ibi ignem
351
deficere extremum et religatos rite videbat
352
carpere gramen equos: breviter cum talia Nisus.
353
sensit enim nimia caede atque cupidine ferri:
354
“Absistamus,” ait, “nam lux inimica propinquat.
355
Poenarum exhaustum satis est, via facta per hostis.”
356
Multa virum solido argento perfecta relinquunt
357
armaque craterasque simul pulchrosque tapetas.
358