Read this excerpt from "Like Mexicans." ... I ignored them and climbed the back fence to see my best friend, Scott, a second-generation Okie
What is the meaning of the underlined term in this context?

1.the hosts on two opposing mountains stood,  

2.thick as the foliage of the waving wood;  

3.between them an extensive valley lay,  

4.o'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day,  

5.when from the camp of the philistine foes,

6. dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose; in the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,

wheres the following authors?

you didn't show the passage, so unfortunately i cant you.