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SCENE IV.

Enter Segimund.
Arminius.
Why, Segimund, that eager haste?—What means
That sudden clangor?

[A trumpet is heard at a distance.
Segimund.
As I took my station
Far as the verge of yonder level plain,
My straining eye perceiv'd a well-oar'd galley,
Cross the Visurgis: From the highest mast
The olive branch, the harbinger of peace,
Was manifest to view.

Arminius.
The olive branch!
This, Inguiomer, is Roman policy:
In their distress they are the friends of peace.

Inguiomer.
Lo! they are near at hand: might I advise,
Admit them to a calm, a patient hearing.