With these, Camilla of the Volscian tribe 1055 leads on her band of horsemen, squadrons bright with brazen armor. She is a warrior; her woman’s hands have never grown accustomed to distaffs or the baskets of Minerva; a virgin, she was trained to face hard battle 1060 and to outrace the wind with speeding feet. Across the tallest blades of standing grain she flies—and never mars the tender ears; or poised upon the swelling wave, she skims the sea—her swift soles never touch the water. 1065 And as Camilla passes, all the young pour out from field and house; the matrons crowd and marvel,
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