flashed in open view from on high a cloud ablaze with rays
of golden light. At once the news spreads among the Trojan 10
ranks that the day has arrived when they are to build
their promised city. With emulous haste they celebrate
the banquet, and in the power of the august presage set on
the bowls exultingly, and wreathe the wine.
Soon as on the morrow the risen day began to illumine 15
the earth with the first sparkle of her torch, some here,
some there, they set about exploring the city, the frontiers,
the seaboard of the country. This, they learn, is the spring