addresses the king, and dashes hotly into speech: “Turnus
stops not the way: Æneas and his cowards have no plea
for retracting their challenge or disowning their plighted
word; I meet the combat; bring the sacred things, good
father, and solemnize the truce. Either will I with my own 15
right hand send the Dardan down to Tartarus, the runaway
from Asia—let the Latians sit by and see—and
with my single weapon refute the slander of a nation; or
let the vanquished own their master and Lavinia be the
conqueror’s bride.” 20