Musaeus, "has a fixed abode. We dwell in shady groves, or lie on the
banks of crystal streams. But come over this eminence and I will
direct you to him you seek."

Musaeus then led them to a spot from which they could view the bright
Elysian fields around, and pointed to a green dale where at last they
beheld Anchises. The hero hastened to approach his father, eager to
embrace him, and thrice did he attempt to throw his arms about his
neck, but thrice did the form escape his hold, for it was nothing but
thin air.

Thrice, around his neck, his arms he threw
And thrice the flitting shadow slipped away,
Like winds, or empty dreams, that fly the day.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VI.

Anchises told his son much about the dwellers in Elysium. On the banks
of the river Lethe--the river of forgetfulness--was a countless
multitude of spirits which, he said, were yet to live in earthly
bodies. They were the souls of unborn generations of men. Amongst
them, he pointed out to AEneas, the spirits of many of those who were
to be his own descendants in the kingdom he was to establish in Italy.

The father-spirit leads
The priestess and his son through swarms of shades,
And takes a rising ground, from thence to see
The long procession of his progeny.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VI.

From this rising ground AEneas saw the shadowy forms of future heroes