upon him, for in his face and figure he saw the resemblance of the
great Anchises, whom he had known in past years. Then replying
to AEneas, he said, "Great chief of the Trojan race, I gladly receive
and recognize you. I well recollect the words, the voice, and the
features of your father, Anchises. For I remember that Priam on his
way to visit his sister Hesione in Greece, also visited my country,
Arcadia. Many of the Trojan princes accompanied him; but the most
majestic of them all was Anchises. Much did I admire him, and I took
him with me to our Arcadian city Phe'neus. At his departure he gave me
costly presents, a quiver filled with Lycian arrows, a mantle
interwoven with gold and two golden bridles." Evander concluded by
consenting to the proposal of AEneas for an alliance against the
Latians--

"The league you ask, I offer as your right;
And when to-morrow's sun reveals the light,
With swift supplies you shall be sent away."
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK VIII.

The Trojans were now hospitably entertained by King Evander. Seated on
the greensward, they partook of a plenteous repast, and when the
banquet was over, the king explained to AEneas and his companions the
meaning of the religious festivities in which they had been engaged.
It was through no vain superstition, he said, that they performed
these solemn rites, but to commemorate their deliverance from a
terrible scourge, and to give honor to their deliverer.

Then Evander related the story of the monster Ca'cus, who in former
times, dwelt in a cave underneath the hill on which Pallanteum was now
built. He was a giant, of enormous size and hideous to behold, for