Meanwhile the Argives were neither
driven towards their ships by Mars and Hector, nor yet did they attack them; when they knew that Mars was with the Trojans they retreated, but kept their faces still turned towards the foe.
"We were frightened out of our senses by his loud voice and monstrous form, but I managed to say, 'We are Achaeans on our way home from Troy, but by the will of Jove, and stress of weather, we have been
driven far out of our course.
I had been
driven with a check-rein by the dealer, and I hated it worse than anything else; but in this place we were reined far tighter, the coachman and his master thinking we looked more stylish so.
Then suddenly the trees in the pine wood ahead of me were parted, as brittle reeds are parted by a man thrusting through them; they were snapped off and
driven headlong, and a second huge tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, headlong towards me.
When the man awoke and found that he had been sleeping, he was grieved at heart, and said, 'She has no doubt been here and
driven away again, and it is now too late for me to save her.' Then his eyes fell on the things which were lying beside him; he read the letter, and knew from it all that had happened.
Now this Battus used to live on the top of the rock and when he heard the voice of the heifers as they were being
driven past, he came out from his own place, and knew that the cattle were stolen.
Anne never forgot the loveliness of the view that broke upon them when they had
driven over the hill behind the village.
