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;