Italian frontier. Thou canst make brothers of one soul
take arms and fight; canst make peaceful homes dens of
strife; thou canst gain entrance for the scourge and the
funeral torch: thou hast a thousand names, a thousand
means of ill. Stir up that prolific bosom, snap the formed 5
bands of peace, scatter the incentives of war, let the nation
in the same moment desire, demand, and seize the sword.”
So then Allecto, empoisoned with Gorgon venom, first
repairs to Latium and the lofty halls of the Laurentine
monarch, and sits down before the hushed chamber of 10