The waving plume, which on his helm he wore.

Forced by this hostile act, and fired with spite,

That flying Turnus still declined the fight,

The prince, whose piety had long repelled

His inborn ardour, now invades the field;

Invokes the powers of violated peace,

Their rites and injured altars to redress;

Then, to his rage abandoning the rein,

With blood and slaughtered bodies fills the plain.

What god can tell, what numbers can display,