the clouds? Ay, it is foul shame that the Italians should
throw a belt of flame round the infant Troy—that Turnus 15
should plant a foot on the soil of his fathers, Turnus, whose
grandsire was Pilumnus, whose mother the goddess
Venilia. How call you it for the Trojans to invade
Latium with their smoking torches, to put their yoke on a
country that is none of theirs, and harry away its plunder—to 20
choose at will those whose daughters they would wed,
and drag the plighted bride from the bosom—to bear
suppliant tokens in the hand and arm their vessels to the