sight, Æneas wonderingly inquires what it means, what
are those waters in the distance, or who the men that are
thronging the banks in crowds so vast. To him his father
Anchises: “They are spirits to whom Destiny has promised
new bodies, there at the side of Lethe’s water, drinking 35
the wave of carelessness, and the long draught of oblivion.
In truth I have long wished to tell you of them and show
them before you, to recount the long line of my kindred,
that you may rejoice with me now that Italy is found.”
“Oh, my father! and must we think that there are souls