to build a petty town, to whom we made over a strip of 30
land for tillage, with its rights of lordship, she has rejected
an alliance with us, and received Æneas into her kingdom,
to be its lord and hers. And now that second Paris, with
his emasculate following, a Mæonian[175] cap supporting his
chin and his essenced hair, is enjoying his prize, while we, 35
forsooth, are making offerings to temples of thine, and
keeping alive an idle rumour.”
Thus as he prayed, his hands grasping the altar, the
almighty one heard him, and turned his eyes to the queenly