huge rocks, and two great crags rising in menace to the

sky; under their summits far and wide the water is hushed

in shelter, while a theatric background of waving woods, 20

a black forest of stiffening shade, overhangs it from the

height. Under the brow that fronts the deep is a cave

with pendent crags; within there are fresh springs and

seats in the living rock—the home of the nymphs; no

need of cable[55] here to confine the weary bark or anchor’s 25

crooked fang to grapple her to the shore. Here with seven

ships mustered from his whole fleet Æneas enters; and