Book 9.159-167
Messapus sets pickets around the gates and Rutulians are chosen to guard the walls.
Interea vigilum excubiis obsidere portas
159
cura datur Messapo et moenia cingere flammis.
160
Bis septem Rutuli, muros qui milite servent,
161
delecti; ast illos centeni quemque sequuntur
162
purpurei cristis iuvenes auroque corusci.
163
Discurrunt variantque vices fusique per herbam
164
indulgent vino et vertunt crateras aenos.
165
Conlucent ignes, noctem custodia ducit
166
insomnem ludo.
167