pour libations to Jove, invoke in prayer my sire Anchises,
and set again the wine on the board.” So having said, he
wreathes his brow with the leafy spray, and offers prayer
to the genius of the spot; to Earth the eldest of the gods;
to the nymphs and the streams yet unknown by name:
after that, to Night and Night’s new-born stars and
Ida’s Jove, and Phrygia’s mighty mother, invoking each 5
in turn, and his own two parents in the upper and the
nether world. Just then the Almighty Father thundered
thrice aloft in a clear sky, and with his own right hand