Æneas and all the household join in entreating Anchises to go with them (651-653):
The heavy hand of fate is on us all,
But do not thou, O father, seek to add
To this our weight of sorrow, and o’erthrow
Our fortunes utterly.
But the old man stubbornly persists in his refusal.
Æneas, seeing his father immovable (656-670):
And didst thou think that I could leave thee here,
O father, and betake myself to flight?
And has such monstrous utterance as this