made at your home. To whom, think you, are you leaving

your little Iulus—your father, and me who was once

styled your wife?’

“Thus she was crying, while her moaning filled the

house, when a portent appears, sudden and marvellous to

relate. Even while the hands and eyes of his grieving 5

parents were upon him, lo, a flickering tongue of flame

on the top of Iulus’ head was seen to shoot out light,

playing round his soft curly locks with innocuous contact

and pasturing about his temples. We are all hurry and