... tearing down their towers and walls to crush the Greeks below them, while the men on the ground were trying to defend doorways with their swords drawn. * Aeneas remembers that there was a secret passage used by Andromache and decides to use this to enter the palace. Virgil uses the mention of this name to again introduce a mood of nostalgia. Once in the palace they loosen one of the towers and push it down, "crushing great columns of Greeks." * We are then told about the rampaging Pyrrhus and he is compared to a snake. Pyrrhus then hacks his way into the heart of Priam's palace where the women and children are, and the Greek continued to press on with similar brute force to his father Achilles killing everything in his path as he was soon followed by the Greeks soldiers who butchered the guards in their way. ...

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