In the midst there stands, with boughs and aged arms 25
outspread, a massive elm, of broad shade, the chosen
seat, so Rumour tells, of bodiless dreams, which cling
close to its every leaf. There, too, are a hundred monstrous
shapes of wild beasts of divers kinds, Centaurs
stalled in the entrance and two-formed Scyllas, and 30
Briareus,[215] the hundred-handed, and the portent of Lerna,[216]
hissing fearfully, and Chimæra[217] in her panoply of flames,
Gorgons,[218] and Harpies, and the semblance of the three-bodied
spectre. At once Æneas grasps his sword, in the