A crust of bread; reveal’d the goddess’ mind;
The gift took; and return’d upon her way:
Gave Cerberus his cake, Charon his fare,
And saw through Hell’s mouth to the purple air
And one by one the keen stars melt in day.
29
Awhile from so long journeying in the shades
Resting at Tænarus she came to know
How, up the eastern coast some forty stades,
There stood a temple of her goddess foe.