wife of a royal line. Weep not for me. The mother of the gods keeps me
in this land to serve her. And now farewell, and fail not to love and
watch over our son."

Then the form of Creusa melted into air, and the sorrowing husband
returned to the place where his father and son awaited him. There he
found a number of his fellow-citizens prepared to follow him into
exile. They first took refuge in the forests of Mount I'da, not far
from the ruined city. In this place they spent the winter, and they
built a fleet of ships at An-tan'dros, a coast town at the foot of the
mountain.

"Near old Antandros, and at Ida's foot,
The timber of the sacred groves we cut,
And build our fleet-uncertain yet to find
What place the gods for our repose assigned."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK III.

It is remarkable that Vergil does not tell how Creusa came by her
death. Apparently we are left to infer that she was killed by the
Greeks.



II. AENEAS LEAVES TROY--THE HARPIES--PROPHECY OF HELENUS-THE GIANT
POLYPHEMUS.

In the early days of summer--the fleet being ready and all
preparations complete--Anchises gave the order for departure, and so
they set sail, piously carrying with them the images of their