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now of the stars, the road-marks of the shadowy night,
and now of all that he has borne by land and by sea.

Now, ye goddesses, open wide your Helicon,[o] and stir up
the powers of song, to tell us what the army now following
Æneas from the Tuscan shores, equipping its ships for 5
adventure, and sailing over the sea.

First comes Massicus, cleaving the waters in his brass-sheathed
Tiger: in his train a band of a thousand warriors,
who have left the walls of Clusium and the city Cosæ;
their weapons a sheaf of arrows, light quivers for the 10
shoulder, and a bow of deadly aim. With him grim
Abas: his whole band ablaze with gleaming armour,
his vessel shining with a gilded Apollo. Populonia had
sent him six hundred of her sons, all versed in war: Ilva
three hundred, an island rich in the Chalybes' unexhausted 15
mines. Third comes Asilas, the great interpreter
'tween gods and men, at whose bidding are the
victims' entrails, the stars of the sky, the tongues of augurial
birds, and the flame of the prophetic lightning. With
him hurry a thousand in close array, bristling with spears—subjected 20
to his command by the town of Pisa, which,
sprung from Alphëus, took root on Etruscan soil. After
these is Astur, fairest of form, Astur, proud of his steed
and his glancing armour. Three hundred follow him, all
with one loyal soul, from those who dwell in Cære and in 25
the plains of Minio, in ancient Pyrgi, and Gravisca's
tainted air.

I would not leave thee unsung, bravest chief of the Ligurians,
Cinyras, or Cupavo with scanty retinue, whose helmet
is surmounted by plumage of the swan: love was your 30
joint crime; for love you wear the cognizance of your
father's form. For legend tells that Cycnus, all for grief
over his darling Phaethon, while in the poplar shade and
the leafage of the brotherless sisters he keeps singing and
consoling his sad passion by the Muses' aid, drew over his 35
form the soft plumage of downy eld, mounting up from
earth and sending his voice before him to the stars. His
son, with a band of martial peers sailing at his side,