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32 Check these emotions till the whole is heard.

Speak, show us: to the sick some gleam of comfort

Flows from the knowledge of their pains to come.

Your first request with ease has been obtain'd;

For from her lips you wish'd to hear the tale

Of her afflictions. Hear the rest; what woes

From Juno's rage await this suff'ring virgin.

And thou with deep-attention mark my words,

Daughter of Inachus; and learn from them

The traces of thy way. First then, from hence

Turn to the orient sun, and pass the height

Of these uncultur'd mountains; thence descend

To where the wandering Scythians, train'd to bear

The distant-wounding bow, on wheels aloft

Roll on their wattled cottages; to these

Approach not nigh, but turn thy devious steps

Along the rough verge of the murm'ring main,

And pass the barb'rous country: on the left

The Chalybes inhabit, whose rude hands

Temper the glowing steel; beware of these,

A savage and inhospitable race ,

Thence shalt thou reach the banks of that proud stream,

Which from its roaring torrent takes its name;

But pass, it not, tempt not its dangerous depths

Unfordable, till now thy weary steps

Shall reach the distant bound of Caucasus,

Monarch of mountains; from whose extreme height

The bursting flood rolls down his pow'r of waters.

Passing those star-aspiring heights, descend

Where to the south the Amazonian tents,