them with flame. Then with food they recall their

strength, and, stretched along the turf, feast on old wine

and fat venison to their hearts’ content. Their hunger

sated by the meal, and the boards removed, they vent in 5

long talk their anxious yearning for their missing comrades—balanced

between hope and fear, whether to

think of them as alive, or as suffering the last change, and

deaf already to the voice that calls on them. But good

Æneas’ grief exceeds the rest; one moment he groans for 10

bold Orontes’ fortune, another for Amycus’, and in the