Latinus having renounced the conduct of the war and shut himself up (7. 600), Turnus takes the lead. ‘Belli signum,’ a flag, such as was displayed on the Janiculum at the “comitia centuriata,” and over the general's tent before battle (Dion Cass. 37. 28). Heyne inclines to explain ‘signum’ by ‘cornua,’ comp. 7. 513: but Wagn. rightly remarks that ‘extulit’ would not agree with this.
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