§7.407consiliumque omnemque domum vertisse Latini, §7.408protinus hinc fuscis tristis dea tollitur alis §7.409audacis Rutuli ad muros, quam dicitur urbem §7.410Acrisioneis Danae fundasse colonis, §7.411praecipiti delata noto.
and had overturned the plan and the entire house of Latinus, immediately from here the sad goddess is borne on dark wings to the walls of the bold Rutulian, which city they say Danae founded for her Acrisian colonists, carried down by the headlong South Wind.
Locus Ardea quondam §7.412dictus avis, et nunc magnum manet Ardea nomen, §7.413sed fortuna fuit; tectis hic Turnus in altis §7.414iam mediam nigra carpebat nocte quietem. §7.415Allecto torvam faciem et furialia membra §7.416exuit, in vultus sese transformat anilis; §7.417et frontem obscenam rugis arat, induit albos §7.418cum vitta crinis, tum ramum innectit olivae; §7.419fit Calybe Iunonis anus templique sacerdos §7.420et iuveni ante oculos his se cum vocibus offert: §7.421Turne, tot incassum fusos patiere labores §7.422et tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis? §7.423Rex tibi coniugium et quaesitas sanguine dotes §7.424abnegat, externusque in regnum quaeritur heres. §7.425I nunc, ingratis offer te, inrise, periclis; §7.426Tyrrhenas, i, sterne acies; tege pace Latinos. §7.427Haec adeo tibi me, placida cum nocte iaceres, §7.428ipsa palam fari omnipotens Saturnia iussit. §7.429Quare age et armari pubem portisque moveri §7.430laetus in arma para, et Phrygios qui flumine pulchro §7.431consedere duces pictasque exure carinas.
The place was once called Ardea by our ancestors, and now Ardea remains a great name, but its fortune has departed; here, in his lofty palace, Turnus was already taking his mid-sleep in the black night. Allecto puts off her grim face and fury-like limbs, and transforms herself into an old woman's features; she furrows her loathsome brow with wrinkles, puts on white hair with a fillet, and then entwines a branch of olive; she becomes Calybe, the old priestess of Juno's temple, and presents herself before the young man's eyes with these words: 'Turnus, will you suffer so many labors to have been poured out in vain, and your sceptre to be transferred to Dardanian colonists? The king denies you the marriage and the dowry sought with your blood, and a foreign heir is sought for the kingdom. Go now, mocked one, offer yourself to thankless dangers; go, lay low the Tyrrhenian ranks; protect the Latins with peace. Indeed, the almighty daughter of Saturn herself ordered me to speak these things openly to you when you were lying in the quiet night. Therefore arise, and joyfully prepare the youth to be armed and to march out from the gates into battle, and burn the Phrygian leaders who have settled by the beautiful river, and their painted ships. The great power of the gods commands.
§7.432Caelestum vis magna iubet. Rex ipse Latinus, §7.433ni dare coniugium et dicto parere fatetur, §7.434sentiat et tandem Turnum experiatur in armis. §7.435Hic iuvenis vatem inridens sic orsa vicissim §7.436ore refert:
Classis invectas Thybridis undam §7.437non, ut rere, meas effugit nuntius auris.
Let king Latinus himself, unless he consents to grant the marriage and obey your word, feel it, and at last experience Turnus in arms.' Here the youth, mocking the prophetess, in turn answers with these words: 'The news that the fleet has been carried into the waters of the Tiber has not, as you think, escaped my ears.
§7.438Ne tantos mihi finge metus; nec regia Iuno §7.439inmemor est nostri. §7.440Sed te victa situ verique effeta senectus, §7.441o mater, curis nequiquam exercet et arma §7.442regum inter falsa vatem formidine ludit. §7.443Cura tibi divom effigies et templa tueri: §7.444bella viri pacemque gerent, quis bella gerenda. §7.445Talibus Allecto dictis exarsit in iras, §7.446at iuveni oranti subitus tremor occupat artus, §7.447deriguere oculi: tot Erinys sibilat hydris §7.448tantaque se facies aperit; tum flammea torquens §7.449lumina cunctantem et quaerentem dicere plura §7.450reppulit et geminos erexit crinibus anguis §7.451verberaque insonuit rabidoque haec addidit ore: §7.452En ego victa situ, quam veri effeta senectus §7.453arma inter regum falsa formidine ludit. §7.454Respice ad haec: adsum dirarum ab sede sororum, §7.455bella manu letumque gero. §7.456Sic effata facem iuveni coniecit et atro §7.457lumine fumantis fixit sub pectore taedas. §7.458Olli somnum ingens rumpit pavor, ossaque et artus §7.459perfundit toto proruptus corpore sudor; §7.460arma amens fremit, arma toro tectisque requirit; §7.461saevit amor ferri et scelerata insania belli, §7.462ira super: magno veluti cum flamma sonore §7.463virgea suggeritur costis undantis aëni §7.464exsultantque aestu latices, furit intus aquaï §7.465fumidus atque alte spumis exuberat amnis, §7.466nec iam se capit unda, volat vapor ater ad auras. §7.467Ergo iter ad regem polluta pace Latinum §7.468indicit primis iuvenum et iubet arma parari, §7.469tutari Italiam, detrudere finibus hostem: §7.470se satis ambobus Teucrisque venire Latinisque. §7.471Haec ubi dicta dedit divosque in vota vocavit, §7.472certatim sese Rutuli exhortantur in arma: §7.473hunc decus egregium formae movet atque iuventae, §7.474hunc atavi reges, hunc claris dextera factis. §7.475Dum Turnus Rutulos animis audacibus implet, §7.476Allecto in Teucros Stygiis se concitat alis, §7.477arte nova speculata locum, quo litore pulcher §7.478insidiis cursuque feras agitabat Iulus. §7.479Hic subitam canibus rabiem Cocytia virgo §7.480obicit et noto naris contingit odore, §7.481ut cervum ardentes agerent; quae prima laborum §7.482causa fuit belloque animos accendit agrestis. §7.483Cervus erat forma praestanti et cornibus ingens, §7.484Tyrrhidae pueri quem matris ab ubere raptum §7.485nutribant Tyrrhusque pater, cui regia parent §7.486armenta et late custodia credita campi.
Do not fashion such great fears for me; nor is royal Juno unmindful of us. But old age, conquered by decay and barren of truth, O mother, vexes you with vain cares, and mocks a prophetess with false fear amid the wars of kings. Your care is to guard the statues and temples of the gods; men will wage war and peace, by whom wars must be waged.' At such words Allecto blazed into wrath, but as the youth was speaking, a sudden trembling seized his limbs, his eyes grew stiff: so many are the hydras with which the Fury hisses, and so great a shape reveals itself; then, rolling her flaming eyes, she repulsed him as he hesitated and sought to say more, and she raised two snakes from her hair, and cracked her whips, and added these words from her rabid mouth: 'Look at me, conquered by decay, whom old age, barren of truth, mocks with false fear amid the wars of kings! Look upon these things: I am here from the home of the dread sisters, I bear war and death in my hand.' Thus having spoken, she cast a torch at the youth and fixed the smoking brand with black light deep in his breast. A mighty dread shatters his sleep, and sweat, bursting forth from his whole body, bathes his bones and limbs; madly he cries out for arms, he seeks arms in his bed and in his house; the love of the sword rages, and the wicked madness of war, and anger above all: just as when with a great roar a fire of twigs is heaped beneath the ribs of a bubbling cauldron, and the waters leap with the heat, the smoky flood of water rages within and overflows high with foam, and now the wave cannot contain itself, and the black steam flies into the air. Therefore, having defiled the peace, he orders a march to king Latinus to the chief of his young men, and commands arms to be prepared, to protect Italy, and to drive the enemy from their borders: declaring that he alone is coming, a match for both Trojans and Latins. When he had given these words and called the gods to witness his vows, the Rutulians eagerly exhort one another to arms: this one the outstanding beauty of his form and youth moves, that one his royal ancestors, another his right hand famous for deeds. While Turnus fills the Rutulians with bold spirits, Allecto rouses herself on Stygian wings towards the Trojans, having with new art spied out the place on the shore where beautiful Iulus was hunting wild beasts with traps and on the chase. Here the Cocytian virgin casts a sudden madness upon the dogs and touches their nostrils with the well-known scent, so that they might eagerly pursue a stag; which was the first cause of the troubles and inflamed the rustic minds for war. There was a stag of outstanding beauty and huge with horns, which the boys of Tyrrhus, snatched from its mother's udder, were nurturing, along with their father Tyrrhus, whom the royal herds obey and to whom the custody of the plain is widely entrusted.