town, stood before my eyes as I lay in slumber, clear in

a flood of light, where the full moon was streaming through

the windows of the house. Then they began to address

me thus, and relieve my trouble with words like these:

‘The answer which Apollo has ready to give you when you 5

reach Ortygia, he delivers here, sending us, see, of his own

motion to your very door. We, the followers of you and

your fortune since Dardanland sunk in flame—we,

the comrades of the fleet which you have been guiding over

the swollen main—we it is that will raise to the stars the 10