of Cal'y-be, an aged priestess of Juno's temple, and appearing to King
Turnus in a dream as he lay asleep in his palace, urged him to take up
arms against Latinus and the strangers. Turnus was not yet disposed to
take this course, and so he replied to the seeming priestess, that her
duty was to guard the statues and temples of the gods, and he advised
her to leave to men the management of affairs of peace and war.
Enraged by the words of Turnus Alecto now resumed her Fury's form.

Her eyes grow stiffened, and with sulphur burn;
Her hideous looks, and hellish form return;
Her curling snakes with hissings fill the place,
And open all the furies of her face;
Then, darting fire from her malignant eyes,
She cast him backward as he strove to rise.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VII.

Then crying out that she came from the abode of the dire sisters, and
that wars and death were in her hands, she flung a fire-brand at the
king, and disappeared. Turnus started from his sleep, in terror, and
now his breast was filled with eager desire for war. Immediately he
sent orders amongst his chiefs to prepare to defend Italy and expel
the foreigners, declaring that he and his people were a match for
Trojans and Latins combined.

Meanwhile Alecto, her mission of discord not yet completed, appeared
among a band of Trojan youths who with Iulus at their head were
amusing themselves by hunting in the forest. The Fury hurled a fire-
brand at the hounds, and suddenly, as if seized with madness, they
rushed in pursuit of a beautiful young stag which was sporting among
the trees. This stag was a pet of Syl'vi-a, the daughter of Tyr'rheus,