ashes of the grave: “Fetch me here, dear nurse, my sister
Anna. Bid her hasten to sprinkle herself with water
from the stream, and bring with her the cattle and the
atoning offerings prescribed. Let her come with these;
and do you cover your brow with the holy fillet. The 20
sacrifice to Stygian Jove, which I have duly commenced
and made ready, I wish now to accomplish, and with it
the end of my sorrows, giving to the flame the pile that
pillows the Dardan head!” She said: the nurse began
to quicken her pace with an old wife’s zeal. 25