assembled in crowds through the festive hall, and scatter

themselves as invited over the embroidered couches.

There is marvelling at Æneas’ presents, marvelling at

Iulus, at those glowing features, where the god shines 25

through, and those words which he feigns so well, and at

the robe and the veil with the yellow acanthus border.

Chief of all, the unhappy victim of coming ruin cannot

satisfy herself with gazing,[116] and kindles as she looks,

the Phœnician woman, charmed with the boy and the 30

presents alike. He, after he has hung long in Æneas’