brought back. His prize is a slave, not unversed in Pallas’ 20
labours, Pholoë, Cretan born, with twin sons at her
breast.
This match dismissed, good Æneas takes his way to a
grassy plain, surrounded on all sides with woods and sloping
hills: in the middle of the valley was a circle, as of a 25
theatre; thither it was that the hero repaired with many
thousands, the centre of a vast assembly, and sat on a
raised throne. Then he invites, with hope of reward, the
bold spirits who may wish to contend in the swift foot-race,