572Nonetheless, meanwhile, the royal daughter of Saturn puts the final touch to the war. 573The whole crowd of shepherds rushes from the battle into the city, and they carry back the dead, the boy Almo and Galaesus with his face defiled, and they implore the gods and call on Latinus. 577Turnus is there, and amid the outcry over the slaughter and the fire redoubles the terror: Teucrians are being called to rule, Phrygian stock mingled with theirs, he himself driven from the door. 580Then those whose mothers, struck by Bacchus, leap in revels through the pathless groves (for the name of Amata is no light thing) gather together from all sides and importune Mars.
583Straightway all demand an unspeakable war, against omens, against the fates of the gods, by a perverse power; eagerly they surround the palace of King Latinus. 586He resists like an unmoved rock in the sea, like a rock in the sea when a great crash comes, which holds itself firm by its mass amid many waves barking around; 589in vain the crags and foaming rocks roar about it, and the seaweed, dashed against its side, is flung back. 591But when no power is granted him to overcome their blind purpose, and things go at the nod of cruel Juno, the father, calling many times on the gods and the empty air, says: 'Alas, we are broken by the fates and swept away by the storm!
595You yourselves will pay this penalty with your sacrilegious blood, O wretched people. 596You, Turnus, the crime, you a grim punishment will await, and you will worship the gods with prayers too late. 598For my rest is won, and I am wholly at the harbour's mouth; 599I am robbed only of a happy funeral.' 599Saying no more, he shut himself in his palace and let go the reins of affairs.