daring temper of Turnus, and his harangue of
yesterday, and the delay of Tarquin, rendered the matter suspicious,
because it seemed possible that the murder might have been put off in
consequence of it. They proceed then with minds inclined indeed to
believe, yet determined to consider every thing false, unless the swords
were detected. When they arrived there, Turnus is aroused from sleep,
and guards are placed around him; and the servants, who, from affection
to their master, were preparing to use force, being secured, when the
swords, which had been concealed, were drawn out from all parts of the
lodging, then indeed the whole matter appeared manifest, and chains were
placed on Turnus; and forthwith a meeting of the Latins was summoned
amid great confusion. There, on the swords being brought forward in the
midst, such violent hatred arose against him, that without being allowed
a defence, by a novel mode of death, being thrown into the reservoir of
the water of Ferentina, a hurdle[61] being placed over him, and stones
being thrown into that, he was drowned.

[Footnote 61: _Hurdle_, a mode of punishment in use among the
Carthaginians. See Tac. Germ. 12. Similar to the Greek, [Greek:
Katapontismos].]

52. Tarquin, having recalled the Latins to the meeting, and applauded
those who had inflicted well-merited punishment on Turnus, as one
convicted of parricide, by his attempting a change of government, spoke
as follows: "That he could indeed proceed by a long-established right;
because, since all the Latins were sprung from Alba, they were included
in that treaty by which the entire Alban nation, with their colonies,
fell under the dominion of Rome, under Tullus. However, for the sake of
the interest of all parties, he thought rather, that that treaty should
be renewed; and that the Latins should, as participators, enjoy the
prosperity of the Roman people, rather than that they should be
constantly either apprehending or suffering the demolition of their town
and the devastations of their lands, which they suffered formerly in the
reign of Ancus, afterwards in the reign of his own father." The Latins
were persuaded without any difficulty, though in that treaty the
advantage lay on the side of Rome; but they both saw that the chiefs of
the Latin nation sided and concurred with the king, and Turnus was a
recent instance of his danger to each, if he should make any opposition.
Thus the treaty was renewed, and notice was giv