of Numicius, this the river Tiber, this the home of the brave
Latian race. Thereupon Anchises’ son commands an 20
embassy of a hundred, chosen from all classes alike, to go to
the monarch’s royal city, all of them with wreathed boughs
from Pallas’ tree, to carry presents for his honoured hand,
and entreat his friendship for the Teucrians. They delay
not, but hasten at his bidding, moving with rapid pace, 25
while he is marking out the city with a shallow trench,
preparing the ground, and surrounding this their first
settlement on the coast, camp-fashion, with battlements