shall be your dower, fair lady; Bellona[243] is waiting to lead

you to your chamber. Nor is Hecuba the only mother that 20

has teemed with a fire-brand and given birth to a nuptial

blaze; Venus sees the tale repeated in her own offspring—a

second Paris—a funeral torch rekindled for reviving

Troy.”

Having vented words like these, she flew down in black 25

rage to the earth; and now she summons Allecto[244] the baleful

from the dwelling of the dread goddesses and the darkness

of the pit—Allecto, whom bitter wars, and strifes,