Helenus, if you give any credence to his prophetic tongue,

if his mind be a fountain of Apollo’s truth, one thing 20

there is, goddess-born, one thing outweighing all beside

which I will foreshow you, reiterating the warning again

and again—be Juno, great Juno, the first whose deity

you worship—to Juno chant your willing prayers: subdue

that mighty empress by suppliant offerings: thus at 25

last victorious you will leave Trinacria behind, and be

sped to the borders of Italy. When you are there at

length, and have come to the city of Cumæ, and the