A King's Gruesome Behaviour

haud procul hinc saxo incolitur fundata vetusto urbis Agyllinae sedes, ubi Lydia quondam gens, bello praeclara, iugis insedit Etruscis.

Not far from here, the site of the city of Agylla, founded on its ancient rock, is inhabited, where once the Lydian people, most famous for their prowess in war, settled on the Etruscan ridges.

hanc multos florentem annos rex deinde superbo imperio et saevis tenuit Mezentius armis.

Then King Mezentius held this city, which was flourishing for many years, with an arrogant display of power and savage armed force.

quid memorem infandas caedes, quid facta tyranni effera? di capiti ipsius generique reservent!

Why should I tell of his unspeakable slaughters, why [should I tell] of the barbaric deeds of this tyrant? May the gods reserve such things for his own head and those of his family!

mortua quin etiam iungebat corpora vivis componens manibusque manus atque oribus ora, tormenti genus, et sanie taboque fluentes complexu in misero longa sic morte necabat.

Indeed, he even used to join dead bodies to living bodies, binding together hands to hands and faces to faces, a type of torture, and he killed them oozing with gore and decay, in a wretched embrace, in such a long-drawn-out death.

at fessi tandem cives infanda furentem armati circumsistunt ipsumque domumque, obtruncant socios, ignem ad fastigia iactant.

But at last, his tired citizens armed themselves and surrounded both the man himself who was raging unspeakably and his palace, they butchered his allies and threw firebrands onto the rooftops.

ille inter caedem Rutulorum elapsus in agros confugere et Turni defendier hospitis armis.

He slipped through the slaughter and escaped into the land of the Rutulians and was defended by the weapons of his host, Turnus.

ergo omnis furiis surrexit Etruria iustis: regem ad supplicium praesenti Marte reposcunt.

Therefore, all Etruria rose up in righteous fury and they demanded that the king be punished with immediate war.