Thither Anchises, talking thus, conducts his son and the

Sibyl, and dismisses them by the gate of ivory.[237] Æneas

traces his way to the fleet and returns to his comrades; 15

then sails along the shore for Caieta’s haven. The anchor

is cast from the prow: the keels are ranged on the beach.

BOOK VII

And thou, too, in thy death, Caieta,[238] nurse of Æneas, hast

left to our coast the heritage of an ever-living fame; still in

this later day thy glory hovers over thy resting-place, and