gives the word to the chiefs of his soldiery for a march

upon King Latinus, and bids arms be got ready. Italy

must be protected, the foe must be driven from the frontier;

he and his men will be enough for both, Teucrians and

Latians. So he says and appeals to Heaven: and the

Rutulians with emulous zeal encourage each other to

the fight. This one is fired by his leader’s peerless beauty 5

and youth; this by the kings in his pedigree; this by the

glorious deeds of his hand.

While Turnus is filling the Rutulians with the spirit of