148When the next day, rising, was lighting the earth with its first torch, they go off in different directions to explore the city, the borders and the coasts of the people: these are the pools of the spring of Numicus, this is the river Tiber, here live the brave Latins. 152Then the son of Anchises orders a hundred envoys, chosen from every rank, all wreathed with the boughs of Pallas, to go to the king's majestic walls, to bring gifts to the man and to ask peace for the Teucrians. 156Without delay they hurry as ordered and are borne along with rapid steps. 157He himself marks out the walls with a shallow trench, works on the site, and rings his first settlement on the shore with battlements and a rampart, after the fashion of a camp.
160And now, their journey done, the young men were seeing the towers and lofty roofs of the Latins and approaching the wall. 162Before the city boys and youths in the first flower of life are exercising on horseback, breaking in chariots in the dust, or bending fierce bows, or hurling pliant javelins with their arms, and challenging each other at running and throwing, when a messenger, riding ahead on horseback, brings word to the ears of the aged king that huge men in unfamiliar dress have arrived. 168He orders them to be called inside the palace, and took his seat in the middle on his ancestral throne.