your feet at once on a road that will lead you.” So saying,

he moves on before, and from the top of the ridge 30

points to broad fields of light, while they descend from

the summit.

But father Anchises, down in the depth of the green

dell, was surveying with fond observance the spirits now

confined there, but hereafter to pass into the light of day, 35

and scanning, as chance would have it, the whole multitude

of his people, even his loved posterity, their destinies,

their warrior deeds, their ways and their works.