severs it from our rule, and that such is Heaven’s intent.

Turnus, too, if you go back to the first foundation of his

house, has Inachus and Acrisius for his ancestors, and the 5

heart of Mycenæ for his home.” But when, having tried

in vain what these words can do, she sees Latinus obstinately

bent, and meantime the serpent’s fiendish mischief

has sunk deep into her vitals, and is thrilling every

vein, then at last the miserable queen, unsexed by the 10

portentous enormity, raves in ungoverned frenzy through

the city’s length and breadth; as oft you may see a top