and hearths are carried away. King Latinus flies, bearing
away his gods in discomfiture, the truce unratified. 5
Others rein the chariot or vault on horseback, with swords
ready drawn.
Messapus, all on fire to annul the treaty, spurs his horse
full on the Tuscan Aulestes, a king and wearing kingly
cognizance: he draws quickly back, and gets entangled 10
in piteous sort with the altars that meet him behind,
falling on them head and shoulders. Up flashes Messapus
spear in hand, and towering on horseback brings down on