The sacrifice over, the whole concourse returns to the
city. There walked the king, mossed over with years, 10
keeping at his side Æneas and his son as he moved along,
and lightening the way with various speech. Æneas admires,
and turns his quick glance from sight to sight:
each scene enthralls him; and with eager zest he inquires
and learns one by one the records of men of old. Then 15
spoke king Evander, the builder of Rome’s tower-crowned
hill: “These woodlands were first inhabited by native
Fauns and Nymphs, and by a race of men that sprung