For he laid his hand upon the mantle, and his rash example tempted the rest to join in his enterprise of plunder.
Thereupon the recess shook from its lowest foundations, and began suddenly to reel and totter.

Straightway the women raised a shriek that the wicked robbers were being endured too long.

Then they, who were before supposed to be half-dead or lifeless phantoms, seemed to obey the cries of the women, and, leaping suddenly up from their seats, attacked the strangers with furious onset.

The other creatures bellowed hoarsely.
But Broder and Buchi fell to their old and familiar arts, and attacked the witches, who ran at them, with a shower of spears from every side; and with the missiles from their bows and slings they crushed the array of monsters.

There could be no stronger or more successful way to repulse them; but only twenty men out of all the king's company were rescued by the intervention of this archery; the rest were torn in pieces by the monsters.