text:  What has Virgil to exhibit as a set-off to this band of heroes--"Fortem Gyan fortemque Cloanthum"--the boyish eagerness of Ascanius the savage wrath of Turnus when bereaved of his bride! We seem in passing from the _Iliad_ to the _AEneid_ to have fallen so far as character goes from a race of giants to a brood of pigmies