Book 12.161-174
Latinus and Turnus ride out in chariots. Aeneas and Ascanius emerge from the camp. Sacrifices are prepared.
Interea reges, ingenti mole Latinus
161
quadriiugo vehitur curru, cui tempora circum
162
aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt,
163
Solis avi specimen; bigis it Turnus in albis,
164
bina manu lato crispans hastilia ferro;
165
hinc pater Aeneas, Romanae stirpis origo,
166
sidereo flagrans clipeo et caelestibus armis,
167
et iuxta Ascanius, magnae spes altera Romae,
168
procedunt castris, puraque in veste sacerdos
169
saetigeri fetum suis intonsamque bidentem
170
adtulit admovitque pecus flagrantibus aris.
171
Illi ad surgentem conversi lumina solem
172
dant fruges manibus salsas et tempora ferro
173
summa notant pecudum paterisque altaria libant.
174