reply: “Those many talents you name of silver and gold,

keep them for your sons. Turnus was the first to put an

end to such trading usages of war at the moment when he

slew Pallas. My sire Anchises’ ghost, and my son Iulus, 5

speak their thoughts through me.” This said, with his

left hand he grasps the helmet and drives his sword hilt-deep

through the suppliant’s back-drawn neck. Hard by

was Hæmonides, priest of Phœbus and Trivia, his temples

wreathed with the fillet’s sacred band, glittering all over 10

with gay raiment and goodly armour. Him he meets,