“Stretched before the Sicanian bay lies an island, over against Plemyrium the billowy—former ages named it Ortygia. Hither, the legend is, Alpheus, the river of 15 Elis, made himself a secret passage under the sea; and he now, through thy mouth, Arethusa,[168] blends with the waters of Sicily. Obedient to command, we worship the mighty gods of the place; and from thence I pass the over-rich soil of Helorus the marshy. Hence we skirt the 20 tall crags and jutting rocks of Pachynus, and Camarina is seen in the distance,—Camarina, which the oracle gave no man leave to disturb, and the plains of Gela, and Gela itself, mighty city, called from the stream that laves it. Next Acragas the craggy displays from afar its lofty 25 walls, one day the breeder of generous steeds. Thee, too, I leave, by favour of the winds, palmy Selinus, and pick my way through the sunk rocks that make Lilybæum’s waters perilous. Hence Drepanum receives me, with its haven and its joyless coast. Here, after so many 30 storms on the sea had done their worst, woe is me! I lose him that had made every care and danger light, my father, Anchises. Here, best of sires, you leave your son, lone and weary, you, who had been snatched from those fearful dangers, alas! in vain. Helenus, the seer, among 35 the thousand horrors he foretold, warned me not of this agony; no, nor dread Celæno. This was my last suffering, this the goal of my long journeyings. It was on parting hence that Heaven drove me on your coast.” Thus father Æneas, alone, amid the hush of all around, was recounting Heaven’s destined dealings, and telling of his voyages; and now, at length, he was silent, made an 5 end, and took his rest. BOOK IV But the queen, pierced long since by love’s cruel shaft, is feeding the wound with her life-blood, and wasting under a hidden fire. Many times the hero’s own worth comes back to her mind, many times the glory of his race; his every look remains imprinted on her breast, and his every 5 word, nor will trouble let soothing sleep have access to her frame.