there are sons-in-law from a far country now on their way, 35
men destined by mixing their blood with ours to exalt our
name to the spheres—men whose lineal posterity shall
one day look down and see under their feet the whole
world, far as the two oceans which the sun surveys in his
daily round, revolving beneath them and wielded by their
control.” Such was the response of father Faunus,
the counsel given at still of night: nor does Latinus hold
it shut in the prison of his own lips; but Fame had flown 5
with the rumour through Ausonia far and wide from city