to the wind; while some are filling the sky with quivering

shrieks, clad in fawn-skins, and carrying vine-branch

spears. There in the middle is the queen all aglow, lifting 35

high a blazing pine, and singing the bridal song of Turnus

and her daughter, her eye red and glaring; and sudden she

shouts like a savage: “Ho! mothers of Latium all, where’er

ye be, if ye have human hearts and kindness left there for

poor Amata, if ye are stung to think of a mother’s rights,

off with the fillets from your hair, and join the orgie with

me.” Such is the queen, driven among the woods, among