flying in retreat, and snatched in the vehemence of his

soul at the empty hope: “Whither so fast, Æneas?”

cries he: “nay, leave not your promised bridal; this 20

hand shall give you the soil you have sought for the

ocean over.” So with loud shouts he follows, waving his

drawn sword, nor sees that the winds are bearing off his

triumph. It chanced that a ship was standing moored to

the edge of a lofty rock, its ladder let down, its bridge 25

ready to cross—the ship which had carried king Osinius

from the borders of Clusium. Hither, as in haste, the