couch of slaughtered sheep’s skins, and turns to sleep, when 25

she sees many phantoms flitting in marvellous fashion,

and hears divers voices, and enjoys communion with the

gods, and holds converse with Acheron down in Avernus’

deep. Here also king Latinus, in quest of an answer, was

sacrificing duly a hundred sheep of the second year, and 30

was lying on their skins, a fleecy bed, when sudden from the

depth of the grove an utterance was heard: “Look not to

ally your daughter in wedlock of Latium, O my son;

put not faith in marriage chambers dressed and ready;