all the rest, adds his presence to theirs, and joins the procession;

like Apollo, when he leaves his Lycian winter-seat

and the stream of Xanthus, and visits Delos, his

mother’s isle, and renews the dance; while with mingled

voices round the altar shout Cretans and Dryopians, and 30

tattooed Agathyrsians. The god in majesty walks on

the heights of Cynthus, training his luxuriant hair with the

soft pressure of a wreath of leaves, and twining it with

gold; his arrows rattle on his shoulders. Not with less

ease than he moved Æneas; such the beauty that sparkles 35