what destiny has shaped your voyage? What god has
driven you on a coast which you know not to be ours?
What of the boy Ascanius? is he alive and breathing
upper air? he, whom you on that night at Troy—say,
can his boyish mind feel yet for the mother he has lost? 25
Is he enkindled at all to the valour of old days, the prowess
of a grown man, by a father like Æneas, an uncle like
Hector?’
“Such were the sorrows she kept pouring out, weeping
long and fruitlessly, when Priam’s noble son, Helenus, 30