the warrior maid, whose father when she was only a babe tied her to
the shaft of his spear and flung her across a torrent he was unable to
stem with her in his arms. Having thus saved her from the enemy's
clutches, this father taught Camilla to fight so bravely, that she
causes dire havoc among the Trojans before she dies, using her last
breath to implore Turnus to hasten to the rescue.

"Go: my last charge to Turnus tell,
To haste with succor, and repel
The Trojans from the town--farewell."
She spoke, and speaking, dropped her rein,
Perforce descending to the plain.
Then by degrees she slips away
From all that heavy load of clay:
Her languid neck, her drowsy head
She droops to earth, of vigor sped:
She lets her martial weapons go:
The indignant soul flies down below.

_Book XII._ Unappeased by Latinus' reiterated assertions that he is
bestowing Lavinia upon a stranger merely to obey the gods, or by the
entreaties in which Amata now joins, Turnus still refuses peace. More
fighting therefore ensues, during which Aeneas is wounded in the
thigh. While his leech is vainly trying to stanch his blood, Venus
drops a magic herb into the water used for bathing his wounds and thus
miraculously cures him. Plunging back into the fray, which becomes so
horrible that Amata brings Lavinia home and commits suicide, Turnus
and Aeneas finally meet in duel, but, although Juno would fain
interfere once more in behalf of her protégé, Jupiter refuses to allow
it. But he grants instead his wife's petition that the Trojan name and