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