Prae-nes'te with an army who fought with slings, wore helmets
of wolf-skins, and marched with one foot naked.

Nor arms they wear, nor swords and bucklers wield,
Nor drive the chariot through the dusty field;
But whirl from leathern slings huge balls of lead;
And spoils of yellow wolves adorn their head;
The left foot naked, when they march to fight;
But in a bull's raw hide they sheath the right.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VII.

From the mountains of Etruria came the gallant horseman, Mes-sa'pus,
Neptune's son, "whom none had power to prostrate by fire or steel."
The mighty King Clausus led to the field a great host from the country
of the Sabines, and an army of the Qui-ri'tes from the town of Cu'res.
This name, Quirites was in later ages one of the names by which the
citizens of Rome were called. Another of the warriors was Umbro, chief
of the Maru'vi-i, who could charm serpents and heal wounds inflicted
by their bites.

[Illustration with caption: CAMILLA. (Drawn by Varian.)]

All these and many more of the princes of Italy, assembled with their
armies at the call of Turnus. Greatest amongst them was Turnus
himself, tallest by a head, and clad in armor brilliant with
embroidered gold. There was one female warrior amongst his allies.
This was Ca-mil'la, the queen of the Volscians. She was the daughter
of King Met'a-bus, who, like Mezentius, had been driven from his
kingdom by his own people, because he was a cruel tyrant. In his
flight, for the enraged people pursued him to take his life, he