Book 9.59-68
Turnus is like a wolf trying to enter a sheepfold. He wonders how he can enter the Trojan camp.
Ac veluti pleno lupus insidiatus ovili
59
cum fremit ad caulas, ventos perpessus et imbris,
60
nocte super media; tuti sub matribus agni
61
balatum exercent, ille asper et improbus ira
62
saevit in absentis, collecta fatigat edendi
63
ex longo rabies et siccae sanguine fauces:
64
haud aliter Rutulo muros et castra tuenti
65
ignescunt irae, duris dolor ossibus ardet.
66
Qua temptet ratione aditus et quae via clausos
67
excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum?
68