gods that Acestes should receive the honors of victory, and so he
presented to him a goblet embossed in gold, which bad belonged to his
father Anchises. But prizes were given to Eurytion also and to the
other archers. Then followed the last of the games of the day, a grand
exhibition of horsemanship, in which a number of the Trojan youth,--
chief amongst them the boy Iulus,--took the leading part.

Thus did AEneas pay honor to his father's memory. Meantime the
unrelenting Juno was devising schemes to prevent the hero and his
companions from reaching their promised land. With this object she
sent her messenger I'ris down to the Trojan women, who sat together on
the shore while the men were assembled at their games, for at these
exercises females were not allowed to be spectators. As the women sat
on the beach, looking out upon the sea, they thought and talked of the
hardships they had endured during their long wanderings, and lamented
their wretched lot in having still so much to suffer before they could
find permanent homes to settle in.

"Alas! (said one) what oceans yet remain
For us to sail! what labors to sustain!"
All take the word, and, with a general groan
Implore the gods for peace, and places of their own.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK V.

Iris joined in these complaints, and they thought she was one of
themselves, for she had assumed the appearance and dress of a Trojan,
and pretended to be Ber'o-e, a Trojan woman who was just then on a
sick bed in her own chamber. "Unhappy are we," cried the false Beroe;
"far better for us would it have been if we had died by the hands of
the Greeks before the walls of our native city! What miserable doom