445So they were debating among themselves the uncertain state of affairs, contending; 446Aeneas was moving camp and battle-line: look, a messenger rushes through the royal palace in great uproar and fills the city with great terrors: the Teucrians, drawn up in battle-line, and the Tyrrhenian band are coming down from the Tiber river across all the plains. 451At once the people's minds were thrown into confusion, their hearts shaken, and their anger roused by goads not gentle. 453In alarm they call for arms, the young men roar for arms; the fathers weep in sorrow and mutter. 454Here on every side a great clamour of varied discord rises into the air, just as when flocks of birds happen to have settled in a high grove, or by the fish-filled stream of Padusa the hoarse swans make a din across the chattering pools.
459'Yes indeed, citizens,' says Turnus, seizing the moment, 'call a council and sit praising peace: they are rushing in arms upon the kingdom.' 461Saying no more, he snatched himself up and swiftly went out of the high halls. 463'You, Volusus, order the companies of the Volsci to arm,' he says, 'and lead out the Rutulians too. 464Messapus, and Coras with your brother, spread the cavalry in arms over the broad plains. 466Let part secure the approaches to the city and man the towers; let the rest of the force bear arms with me where I command.'