The fields to forage, and to gather force.

Then Venulus to Diomede they send,

To beg his aid Ausonia to defend,

Declare the common danger, and inform

The Grecian leader of the growing storm:

"Æneas, landed on the Latian coast,

With banished gods, and with a baffled host,

Yet now aspired to conquest of the state,

And claimed a title from the gods and fate;

What numerous nations in his quarrel came,