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  • Eventually Lavinia grows into adulthood and is promised to Turnus, King of the Rutulians.

    The Road Not Taken · Lavinia 2009

  • The Rutulians had been close allies of ours since Latinus married Daunus's sister Amata, but young Turnus showed signs of wanting to go his own way.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • 'On me, on me, I am here, I did it, on me turn your steel, O Rutulians!

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The Rutulians stood dumb: Messapus himself is terror-stricken among his disordered cavalry; even the stream of Tiber pauses with hoarse murmur, and recoils from sea.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • To-morrow's daylight, if thou deem not my words vain, shall see Rutulians heaped high in slaughter. '

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • So speaks he, and his Rutulians draw back from a level space at his bidding.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Thou seest how confident in fortune the Rutulians stand.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • He, even as he flies, chides all his Rutulians, calling each by name, and shrieks for the sword he knew.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • But long ere this the Rutulians deemed the battle unequal, and their hearts are stirred in changeful motion; and now the more, as they discern nigher that in ill-matched strength .... heightened by

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Auruncans and Rutulians sow on it, work the stiff hills with the ploughshare, and pasture them where they are roughest.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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