{ A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

Then to the rising sun he turns his eyes,

And strews the beasts, designed for sacrifice,

With salt and meal: with like officious care

He marks their foreheads, and he clips their hair.

Betwixt their horns the purple wine he sheds;

With the same generous juice the flame he feeds.

Æneas then unsheathed his shining sword,

And thus with pious prayers the gods adored:—

"All-seeing sun! and thou, Ausonian soil,