our Dardan forces. Come, my son, catch at flight while 5
you may and bring the struggle to an end. I will not leave
you, till I have set you in safety at your father’s door.’
She had ceased, and veiled herself at once in night’s
thickest shadows. I see a vision of awful shapes—mighty
presences of gods arrayed against Troy. 10
“Then, indeed, I beheld all Ilion sinking into flame, and
Neptune’s city, Troy, overturned from its base. Even as
an ancient ash on the mountain-top, which woodmen have
hacked with steel and repeated hatchet strokes, and are