may help the venture of unequal powers, and utters
these words to the mighty heaven: “By my sire’s hospitality
and the board where thou satest as a stranger, I
pray thee, Alcides, stand by me in my great endeavour.
Let Turnus see me strip the bloody arms from his dying
frame, and may his glazing eyes endure the sight of
a conqueror.” Alcides heard the youth, and stifled a
heavy groan deep down in his breast, and shed forth unavailing 5
tears. Then the Almighty Father bespeaks
his son with kindly words: “Each has his fixed day: