Aeneid

This passage is the original Latin from Vergil's Aeneid:
Stetit acer in armis
Aeneas volvens oculos dextramque repressit;
et iam iamque magis cunctantem flectere sermo
coeperat, infelix umero cum apparuit alto
balteus et notis fulserunt cingula bullis
Pallantis pueri, victum quem vulnere Turnus
straverat, atque umeris inimicum insigne gerebat.

This is Robert Fagles translation of the same passage:
Aeneas, ferocious in armor, stood there, still,
shifting his gaze, and held his sword-arm back,
holding himself back too as Turnus' words began
to sway him more and more... when all at once
he caught sight of the fateful sword belt of Pallas,
swept over Turnus' shoulder, gleaming with shining studs
Aeneas knew by heart. Young Pallas, whom Turnus had overpowered,
taken down with a wound, and now his shoulder flaunted
his enemy's battle-emblem like a trophy.

I find this a very interesting passage. It is nearly the last lines in the book. Everything has lead up to this moment. In this passage, pity gives way to anger, mercy to revenge. And then the book ends, as Turnus' unfortunate spirit flies to the shades. It is a sudden end, in which there is no resolution. Aeneas wins and that's that. Either Virgil did not care that his readers are left hanging and wanted to emphasize the brutality and warfare ideas which founded Rome, or else he simply did not have time to finish before he died. I find it almost funny how it ends. If on purpose, then it sheds a disagreeing eye on the warlike and aggressive attitude of the Romans. If Virgil had meant to add an end, which included marriage and resolution with the Latins, then I would say he was instead accepting that vengeance was necessary for life and for the good of Rome. As it is, I am uncertain, as many people are. But this lack (or not) of an ending does not keep this epic from being any less renowned.