Light barbs they fling, from pliant thongs of hide, A leathern target o'er the left is strung, And short, curved daggers the close fight decide.
Nor, OEbalus, those gallant hosts among, Shalt thou go nameless, and thy praise unsung, Thou, from old Telon, as the tale hath feigned, And beauteous Sebethis, the wood-nymph, sprung, O'er Teleboan Caprea when he reigned; But Caprea's narrow realm proud OEbalus disdained.
C.

Far stretched his rule; Sarrastians owned his sway, And they, whose lands the Sarnian waters drain, And they, who till Celenna's fields, and they Whom Batulum and Rufrae's walls contain, And where through apple-orchards o'er the plain Shines fair Abella.

Deftly can they wield Their native arms; the Teuton's lance they strain; Bark helmets guard them, from the cork-tree peeled, And brazen are their swords, and brazen every shield.
CI.

From Nersa's hills, by prosperous arms renowned, Comes Ufens, with his AEquians, in array.
Rude huntsmen these; in arms the stubborn ground They till, themselves as stubborn.

Day by day They snatch fresh plunder, and they live by prey.
There, too, brave Umbro, of Marruvian fame, Sent by his king Archippus, joins the fray.
Around his helmet, for in arms he came, The auspicious olive's leaves the sacred priest proclaim.
CII.