eminence round which the rest of the Teucrian army
gathers in close ranks, not laying shield or dart aside.
Standing on the tall mound, he thus bespeaks them: 20
“Let nothing stay my orders; the hand of Jove is here;
nor let any move slower because the enterprise is sudden.
The town, the cause of the war, the royal home of the
Latian king, unless they submit the yoke and confess
themselves vanquished, I will overthrow this day, and lay 25
its smoking turrets level with the ground. What? am I
to wait till Turnus choose to bide the combat, and once