set down our offering.” As she spoke, they step side by
side through the dusky ways, despatch the interval of
distance, and draw near the gate. Æneas masters the
approach, sprinkles his body with pure spring water, and 20
fixes the branch on the portal’s front.
And now these things done at length, and the offering
to the goddess accomplished, they have reached the
regions of bliss, green pleasaunces of happy groves, and the
abodes of the blest. Here ether clothes the plains with 25
an ampler plenitude and a dazzling lustre; and the eye