father heard to speak at their last parting; his servants 15
were seen carrying within doors their fallen lord.
And now the cavalry had passed the city’s open gates,
Æneas among the first and true Achates, and after them
the other Trojan nobles; Pallas himself the centre of the
column, conspicuous with gay scarf and figured armour; 20
even as the morning-star just bathed in the waves of the
ocean, Venus’ favourite above all the stellar fires, sets in
a moment on the sky his heavenly countenance, and
melts the darkness. There are the trembling matrons