stands the centre of that vast crowd, which looks up to

him, as with rising shoulders he towers above them: 20

“Tell us, happy spirits, and you, best of bards, which is

Anchises’ haunt? which his home? for it is to see him

that we have come hither, and won our way over the

mighty river of Erebus.” Instant the hero replied in brief:

“Here there are no fixed abodes: our dwellings are in 25

shadowy groves: our settlements on the velvet slope of

banks and meadows fresh with running streams. But

come, if you will, climb this hill with me, and I will set