So come, follow old Nautes’ good sound advice: choose your elite troops, your bravest hearts, and sail them on to Italy. There in Latium you 810 must battle down a people of wild, rugged ways. But first go down to the House of Death, the Underworld, go through Avernus’ depths, my son, to seek me, meet me there. I am not condemned to wicked Tartarus, those bleak shades, I live in Elysium, the luminous fields where the true and faithful gather. A chaste Sibyl will guide you there, once you have offered the blood of many pure black sheep. And then you will learn your entire race to come and the
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