Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . e midst of cheerful converse, shows him the traces of mans disposing hand amidstthe thicket;— the remnant of a past time. There, where the masses of rock are wildly strewn about, and where furze and thornsgrow rankly, in that rocky dwelling once lived the hideous Cacus, whom Hercules slew in ROME. 223 his divine wrath. Here is the Porta Carmentalis, built in honour of the prophetessmother of the king; there the gloomy woods of the Palatine. This weed-grown, water-dripping cave is the Lupercal, dedicated to the Lycsean Pan; yonder is the TarpeianRock. He tell
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . e midst of cheerful converse, shows him the traces of mans disposing hand amidstthe thicket;— the remnant of a past time. There, where the masses of rock are wildly strewn about, and where furze and thornsgrow rankly, in that rocky dwelling once lived the hideous Cacus, whom Hercules slew in ROME. 223 his divine wrath. Here is the Porta Carmentalis, built in honour of the prophetessmother of the king; there the gloomy woods of the Palatine. This weed-grown, water-dripping cave is the Lupercal, dedicated to the Lycsean Pan; yonder is the TarpeianRock. He tells of the Capitol, surrounded by an impenetrable thicket; Jupiter dwellsthere, and many of the country folk have seen him standing amid the trees and swingingthe dark JEgis in his hands to call down awful tempests. Up aloft there rises theJaniculus, and there Saturnia ! Fallen masonry, grey fragments of old time, tell of thedays of Janus and of Saturn. Fair white herds of cattle graze in the meadows, and sun-browned herdsmen stand. PORTA FURBA, IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. near them leaning on their staves. The old king leads his guest past them into theshelter of his hospitable roof. The gods give him aid, and, though the conflict is fierce and furious, Turnus andhis unwilling ally Latinus, are conquered. /Eneas makes a treaty with Latinus, weds thefair Lavinia, and founds and fortifies the holy city of Lavinium. But at length ./Eneas isremoved from this changeful life, and Lavinia, fearing her husbands son Ascanius, fliesto Tyrrheus. Tyrrheus, the faithful servant of the royal house, dwells deep amid thewoods, and watches over flocks and herds. Here stands his rude hut guarded by hugedogs, and the wild woodland folks come hither with their children to play and sport,whilst the axe of the wood-cutter, felling the knotty oak, awakes the echoes of themountains. In this forest solitude Silvius sees the light; and is therefore the wood-born son once promised to /Eneas. He is bred up in
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