bids them not break the sacred observance, and snatching
up a weapon flies himself to meet the strangers, and
from a height at distance, “Warriors,” he cries, “what
cause has led you to venture on a path you know not? 20
whither are you bound? what is your nation, your family?
is it peace you bring us or war?” Then father Æneas
bespeaks him thus from the lofty stern, stretching forth
in his hand a branch of peaceful olive: “These are Trojans
you see. These weapons mean hostility to the 25
Latins, who have driven us from their land by a tyrannous