he pondered whether to settle in the plains of Sicily, shutting
his ears to Fate’s voice, or still make for the shores of 25
Italy. Then Nautes the aged—whom Tritonian Pallas
singled from his kind, to teach her lore and dower him
with the fame of abundant wisdom—hers the oracular
utterances which told what Heaven’s awful wrath portended,
or what the stern sequence of destiny required—he 30
it was that addressed Æneas thus in words of comfort:
“Goddess-born, be it ours to follow as Fate pulls us to or
fro; come what may, there is no conquering fortune but