887. Aeneas threatens against [him], and he brandishes his huge treelike
888. weapon, and he speaks thus with a savage heart:
889. "Now at last, what delay is there? Or why are you drawing back now, Turnus?
890. It must be fought* hand-to-hand with savage weapons, not with a course**. (*certandum est is a passive periphrastic. "Certandum" is a gerundive. **a "course" meaning a race.)
891. Turn yourself* into all faces and draw together whatever (*tete = te).
892. you are able to either with your mind or with your skill; desire
893. to follow the lofty stars with wings and to hide yourself enclosed by hollow land."
894. That man, shaking his head, says, "Your fiery words do not frighten me,
895. fierce [man]; the gods and enemy Jupiter frighten me."
896. And not having spoken out more [words], he catches sight of a huge rock,
897. a huge old rock, which, by chance, was lying on the plain,
898. a boundary placed on the field so that it might dissolve a dispute for fields.
899. Twelve chosen [men] would go under that [boundary/rock] with their neck
900. as the bodies of men the earth now produces;
901. that man was hurling [it] seized with a trembling hand into the enemy,
902. rising higher, and the hero* has been stirred up on a course. (*heros = Turnus. Virgil is noted for portraying Turnus sympathetically despite being Aeneas' enemy.)
903.