Temat postu: Stripp'd of his quilted coathis body bares
pace within is spread
With ironor with loads of heavy lead:
Dares himself was daunted at the sight
Renounc'd his challengeand refus'd to fight.
Astonish'd at their weightthe hero stands
And pois'd the pond'rous engines in his hands.
What had your wonder said Entellus [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], been
Had you the gauntlets of Alcides seen
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These which I bear your brother Eryx bore
Still mark'd with batter'd brains and mingled gore.
With these he long sustain'd th' Herculean arm;
And these I wielded while my blood was warm
This languish'd frame while better spirits fed
Ere age unstrung my nervesor time o'ersnow'd my head.
But if the challenger these arms refuse
And cannot wield their weightor dare not use;
If great Aeneas and Acestes join
In his requestthese gauntlets I resign;
Let us with equal arms perform the fight
And let him leave to fearsince I resign my right.
This saidEntellus for the strife prepares;
Stripp'd of his quilted coathis body bares;
Compos'd of mighty bones and brawn he stands
A goodly tow'ring object on the sands.
Then just Aeneas equal arms supplied
Which round their shoulders to their wrists they tied.
Both on the tiptoe standyilai:
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