one of the herdsmen of King Latinus. Iulus seeing the hounds in
pursuit, followed them, and shot at and wounded the stag. The animal
fled to the house of Tyrrheus, where Sylvia, seeing her pet covered
with blood, broke out into loud lamentations. Her father in a fit of
anger seized a weapon, and joined by some of his friends rushed upon
Iulus and his companions. The alarm quickly reaching the camp of the
Trojans several of them hastened to assist their countrymen, and a
fierce battle ensued, in which many of the Latians or Latins were
killed. Thus the evil project of Juno was accomplished.

Then Juno thus: "The grateful work is done,
The seeds of discord sowed, the war begun;
Frauds, fears and fury, have possessed the state,
And fixed the causes of a lasting hate."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VII.

And now the Latian youth, chiefly shepherds, who had taken part with
Tyrrheus, rushed from the field of battle into the city, carrying with
them the bodies of their friends who had been slain, and crying to the
gods and to King Latinus for vengeance upon the Trojans. Just then
King Turnus appeared with a force of his Rutulians, and addressed the
people in words which excited them to the highest pitch of fury. He
told them that foreigners had been invited to rule in their country,
and that the chief of the intruders was to have the princess who had
been promised to him to be his wife.

Then a great multitude of Latians and Rutulians hastened to the palace
of King Latinus, and demanded that he should at once declare war
against the Trojans. Latinus refused to do what he knew was against
the decrees of the gods, and he warned the people that evil would come