445At such words Allecto blazed into rage, and as the young man spoke a sudden trembling seizes his limbs, his eyes stared fixed: so many are the serpents with which the Fury hisses, so vast a face reveals itself; 448then, rolling her flaming eyes, she thrust him back as he hesitated and sought to say more, and raised two snakes from her hair, and cracked her whip, and added these words with raving mouth: 'Look at me, worn out with decay, whom old age, barren of truth, mocks with false fear among the wars of kings. 454Look at this: I come from the home of the dread sisters, and in my hand I bear wars and death.' 456Having spoken so, she hurled a torch at the young man and fixed the brand, smoking with black light, beneath his breast.
458A huge terror breaks his sleep, and sweat, bursting out from his whole body, drenches his bones and limbs; 460frantic, he roars for arms, searches for arms in his bed and through the house; 461love of the sword rages in him, and the criminal madness of war, and anger above all: as when a fire of brushwood is heaped with a loud roar beneath the sides of a seething cauldron, and the water leaps with the heat; within, the smoking flood of water rages and boils up high with foam, and the wave no longer contains itself; black steam flies into the air. 467So, now that peace has been defiled, he gives notice to the leaders of the young men of a march on King Latinus, and orders arms to be made ready, to defend Italy, to drive the enemy from its borders: he is coming, a match for both Teucrians and Latins.
471When he had said this and called the gods to hear his vows, the Rutulians eagerly urge one another to arms: one is moved by the outstanding grace of his beauty and youth, one by his royal ancestors, one by his right hand, famous for its deeds.