breezes, sped their flight along, and wafted them past the

seething waters. 25

The sea was just reddening in the dawn, and Aurora was

shining down from heaven’s height in saffron robe and rosy

car, when all at once the winds were laid, and every breath

sank in sudden sleep, and the oars pull slowly against the

smooth unmoving wave. In the same moment Æneas, 30

looking out from the sea, beholds a mighty forest. Among

the trees Tiber, that beauteous river, with his gulfy rapids

and the burden of his yellow sand, breaks into the main.