[Alexandria, also called Paris, challenges Menelaus -- Helen and Priam view the Achaeans from the wall -- The covenant -- Paris and Menelaus fight, and Paris is worsted -- Venus carries him off to save him -- Scene between him and Helen.]

When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild-fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.

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