and Turnus’ life were pledged to continue? As it is, a
heavy doom hangs over his guiltless head, or I am void
of truth and wandering in delusion. But oh, that I
might rather be the sport of lying terrors, and thou, who
canst, lead back thy counsels by a better road!”
This said, from the lofty sky she shot forthwith, driving
storm before her through the air and girt with the rain-cloud,
and sought the army of Ilium and the camp of 5
Laurentum. Then, as goddesses may, she fashions a
thin, strengthless shadow of hollow cloud in the likeness