And with these pleasing words his sorrow cheered:—

"Undoubted offspring of etherial race,

O long expected in this promised place!

Who, through the foes, hast borne thy banished gods,

Restored them to their hearths, and old abodes—

This is thy happy home, the clime where fate

Ordains thee to restore the Trojan state.

Fear not! The war shall end in lasting peace,

And all the rage of haughty Juno cease.

And that this nightly vision may not seem