the corn-goddess prepared by art, and serve the wine-god
round. Æneas and the warriors of Troy with him
regale themselves on a bull’s long chine[o] and on sacrificial
entrails.
When hunger had been quenched and appetite allayed, 25
king Evander begins: “Think not that these solemnities
of ours, these ritual feastings, this altar so blest in divine
presence, have been riveted on us by idle superstition,
unknowing of the gods of old; no, guest of Troy, it is
deliverance from cruel dangers that makes us sacrifice 30