round with a dim cloud as they moved, and wrapped them

as a goddess only can in a spreading mantle of mist, that 15

none might be able to see them, none to touch them, or

put hindrances in their path, or ask the reason of their coming.

She takes her way aloft to Paphos,[93] glad to revisit

the abode she loves, where she has a temple and a hundred

altars, smoking with Sabæan[94] incense, and fragrant with 20

garlands ever new.

They, meanwhile, have pushed on their way, where the

path guides them, and already they are climbing the hill