hey rise:
But Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway
To rule mankind, and make the world obey,
Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way;
To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free,--
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee."

Having thus inspired AEneas with renewed determination by showing him the
brilliant future that was awaiting his descendants, Anchises conducted him
over those parts of the Elysian Fields which he had not yet visited, and
showed him everything that was of peculiar interest. As they went, he
discoursed to him respecting the wars which he would have to wage in
Latium, and gave him counsel as to the means by which he should overcome
every difficulty. Then at last, having brought him to the ivory gate
whence the gods were accustomed to send false dreams to the upper world,
he bade him farewell. By that gate AEneas and the Sibyl quitted the abodes
of the dead, and ascended without difficulty or adventure to the cave of
the oracle, whence the hero hastened at once to his ships. Without loss of
time he ordered the sails to be spread, and the ships were steered along
the coast, drawing nearer ever hour to their final destination.

AENEAS'S FIRST GREAT BATTLE WITH THE LATINS

By Charles Henry Hanson

[AEneas finally lands in Italy, the country promised him by the
Gods as a home for his race. The Italian king, Latinus, has been
warned by signs and omens that the hand of his daughter Lavinia
must not be given to an Italian prince, but to a stranger coming
from a far country. He believes that AEneas is the hero chosen by
the Fates as her husband, and greets him in most friendly manner.
Queen Amata, however, is influenced by the Trojan-hating Juno to
oppose this marriage. Turnus, chief of the Rutuli, a suitor of
Lavinia, is next aroused, and soon the whole kingdom is in a
turmoil. A fierce battle ensues.]

Turnus, having brought the bulk of his forces from before the beseiged
camp, hurled them against the army of AEneas before its ranks were properly
formed, and a furious conflict at once began to rage. The Trojan hero,
rejoicing to find himself once more on a field of battle, first
encountered the Latian warriors, who chanced to be in his front. Their
leader was Theron, a man of gigantic stature, who did not hesitate to
engage AEneas hand to hand; but he paid dearly for his rashness, for the
sword which Vulcan had forged--so keen was it