Lines 913-931
sic Turno, quacumque uiam uirtute petiuit,
successum dea dira negat. tum pectore sensus
uertuntur uarii; Rutulos aspectat et urbem 915
cunctaturque metu letumque instare tremescit,
nec quo se eripiat, nec qua ui tendat in hostem,
nec currus usquam uidet aurigamue sororem.
Cunctanti telum Aeneas fatale coruscat,
sortitus fortunam oculis, et corpore toto 920
eminus intorquet. murali concita numquam
tormento sic saxa fremunt nec fulmine tanti
dissultant crepitus. uolat atri turbinis instar
exitium dirum hasta ferens orasque recludit
loricae et clipei extremos septemplicis orbis; 925
per medium stridens transit femur. incidit ictus
ingens ad terram duplicato poplite Turnus.
consurgunt gemitu Rutuli totusque remugit
mons circum et uocem late nemora alta remittunt.
ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem 930
protendens 'equidem merui nec deprecor' inquit;
Thus the terrible goddess denies success to Turnus, with whatever virtue he sought the way. Then various senses are turned in his chest; he looks at the Rutulians and the city and he hesitates with fear and he trembles that death is at hand, and he does see where he may snatch himself away, nor with what strength he may strive against the enemy, nor his chariot anywhere, nor his charioteer sister.
Aeneas brandishes the fatal spear him hesitating, having obtained the fortune with his eyes, and with his whole body, he twists it from afar. Rocks having been stirred up by a siege engine against the walls never roar thus, nor do so great roarings jump forth from a thunderbolt. The spear carrying a dire exit flies just like a black whirlwind, and it exposes the edges of the breast-plate and the furthest circles of the seven-layered shield; whistling, it goes across through the middle of the thigh. Having been struck, huge Turnus falls to the ground with his knee doubled. The Rutulians rise together with a groan, and the whole mountain resounds around, and he deep groves send back a voice widely. He, humble, as a suppliant, stretching forth his eyes and his begging right hand, he says, "Indeed I deserved it, and I am not begging (against it),