the oars and fit the ropes, a little band, but a living wellspring

of martial worth. Æneas, meanwhile, is marking

out the city with the plough, and assigning the dwellings 10

by lot, creating an Ilium here, and there a Troy. Acestes,

true Trojan, wields with joy his new sceptre, and proclaims

a court, and gives laws to his assembled senate.[E]

And now the whole nation had enjoyed a nine days’

banquet, and the altars had received due observance; 15

the sleeping winds have lulled the waves, and the repeated

whispers of the south invite to the deep once more. Uprises