city and the guilty pair, lost to their better fame. Then
thus he bespeaks Mercury, and gives him a charge like this:—“Go,
haste, my son, summon the Zephyrs, and float on
thy wings; address the Dardan chief, who is now dallying 5
in Tyrian Carthage, and giving no thought to the city
which Destiny makes his own; carry him my commands
through the flying air. It was not a man like that whom
his beauteous mother promised us in him, and on the
strength of her word twice rescued him from the sword of 10
Greece. No, he was to be one who should govern Italy—Italy,