1When Turnus raised the standard of war from the citadel of Laurentum and the horns blared with their harsh music, when he roused his spirited horses and clashed his arms, at once hearts were thrown into turmoil; all Latium at the same time binds itself together in anxious uproar, and the young men rage wildly. 6The foremost leaders, Messapus and Ufens and Mezentius, scorner of the gods, muster auxiliaries from every side and strip the broad fields of their farmers. 9Venulus too is sent to the city of great Diomedes, to seek help and to inform him that the Teucrians are establishing themselves in Latium, that Aeneas has arrived with a fleet and is bringing in his conquered household gods and declaring that he is called by the fates to be king, that many peoples are joining themselves to the Dardanian hero, and that his name is spreading widely through Latium.
15What he is building with these beginnings, what outcome of the fighting he desires, if Fortune should attend him, would be plainer to Diomedes himself than to King Turnus or to King Latinus.