offering to Pluto, and hereby set you free from the body.” 20
So saying, she stretches her hand and cuts the lock: at
once all heat parts from the frame, and the life has passed
into air.
BOOK V
Æneas, meantime, was well on his road, holding with set
purpose on the watery way, and cutting through billows
gloomed by the North wind, with eyes ever and anon
turned back to the city, which poor Elissa’s funeral flame