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104 their kind host. The parting of the wanderers from their friends is a fine passage, finely rendered:—

With kindliness of gentle speech

The good Æneas comforts each,

And to their kinsman prince commends

With tears his subjects and his friends.

Three calves to Eryx next he kills;

A lambkin's blood to Tempest spills,

And bids them loose from land:

With olive-leaves he binds his brow,

Then takes his station on the prow,

A charger in his hand,

Flings out the entrails on the brine,

And pours a sacred stream of wine.

Fair winds escort them o'er the deep:

With emulous stroke the waves they sweep."