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