world, Eridanus[225] flows in broad current between his
wooded banks. Here is a noble company who braved 10
wounds in fight for fatherland; all the priests who kept
their purity while life was; all the poets whose hearts
were clean, and their songs worthy Phœbus’ ear; all who
by cunning inventions gave a grace to life, and whose
worthy deeds made their fellows think of them with love: 15
each has his brow cinctured with a snow-white fillet.
Looking on the multitude as it streamed around, the
Sibyl bespoke them thus—Musæus before all; for he