Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam,
Per gentes Italas hominum quae clara clueret[53];
and in the signs of the careful study of the Annals which may be traced in the elaborate workmanship of the Aeneid.
The longest specimen of narrative vivified by poetical feeling, from the hand of Ennius, is the passage in which the vestal Ilia relates to her sister the dream that portended her great and strange destiny:—
Excita cum tremulis anus attulit artubu' lumen,
Talia commemorat lacrimans, exterrita somno.
Eurudica prognata, pater quam noster amavit,
Vires vitaque corpu' meum nunc deserit omne.
Nam me visus homo pulcher per amoena salicta
Et ripas raptare locosque novos; ita sola