- Then fury spurred their courage, and behold, / As ravening wolves, when darkness hides the day, / Stung with mad fire of famine uncontrolled, / Prowl from their dens, and leave the whelps to stay, / With jaws athirst and gaping for the prey. / So to sure death, amid the darkness there, / Where swords, and spears, and foemen bar the way, / Into the centre of the town we fare. / Night with her shadowy cone broods o'er the vaulted air.
- Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us.
Isto inda mais os espicaça. Qual vorazes / lobos, que, cegos pela fome insuportável, / na cerração noturna a presa caçam, / deixando as crias, esfaimadas goelas, / à espera nos covis; assim rompemos / por entre as setas inimigas, na certeza / de rumar para a morte, atravessando / todo o centro de Troia, sob a sombra / envolvente das asas da atra noite.