fiery steeds, and clashed his armour, at once came a stirring
of men’s souls: all Latium conspires in tumultuous rising, 5
and the warrior bands are inflamed to madness. The
generals, Messapus and Ufens and Mezentius, scorner of
the gods, assume the lead, mustering succour from all
sides and unpeopling the fields of their tillers far and
wide. Venulus too is sent to the town of mighty Diomede 10
to entreat help, and set forth that the Teucrians are
planting foot in Latium: that Æneas is arrived by sea
and intruding his vanquished home-gods, and announcing