Æ NEÏS, BOOK VIII. ARGUMENT. The war being now begun, both the generals make all possible preparations. Turnus sends to Diomedes. Eneas goes in person to beg succours from Evander and the Tuscans. Evander receives him kindly, furnishes him with men, and sends his son Pallas with him. Vulcan, at the request of Venus, makes arms for her son Eneas, and draws on his shield the most memorable actions of his posterity. WHEN Turnus had assembled all his powers, These through the country took theirwasteful course, Declare the common danger, and inform Was left for him to weigh, whose equal fears, And gives no rest to his distracted heart. } So, when the sun by day, or moon by night, The Trojan chief Was laid on Tyber's banks, oppress'd with grief, And found, in silent slumber, late relief. 'S Then, through the shadows of the poplar wood, Arose the father of the Roman flood; *Note I. |