responsive roar, the sea comes bursting up, and deluges

the fields with its thundering billows. Yet in that spot 5

he built the city of Patavium for his Trojans to dwell in,

and gave them a place and a name among the nations, and

set up a rest for the arms[64] of Troy: now he reposes, lapped

in the calm of peace. Meantime we, of thine own blood,

to whom thy nod secures the pinnacle of heaven, our ships, 10

most monstrous, lost, as thou seest, all to sate the malice

of one cruel heart, are given up to ruin, and severed far

from the Italian shores. Is this the reward of piety[65]?