ABSTRACT
Another fragment celebrates the strong sense of competition in valour felt by Roman warriors:
A powerful desire is mine to equal the deeds of my heartfellows.
(Ennius Annals 131)
5.14 A typical scene of fierce fighting in Latin poetry might go like this:
Each army’s total strength was now engaged, all Latins and all Trojans, every man: Mnestheus and fierce Serestus, Messapus
the horse-tamer, valiant Asilas, the Tuscan squadron, Arcadians of Evander, each putting all he had into the struggle, never a let-up, never a breathing-spell – in the vast combat every man fought on.
