I should find rest in this land at last. Myself no stranger

to sorrow, I am learning[109] to succour the unhappy.”

With these words, at the same moment she ushers 10

Æneas into her queenly palace, and orders a solemn

sacrifice at the temples of the gods. Meantime, as if

this were nought, she sends to his comrades at the shore

twenty bulls, a hundred huge swine with backs all bristling,

a hundred fat lambs with their mothers, and the 15

wine-god’s jovial bounty.

But the palace within is laid out with all the splendour of