His father Anchises answers: “They are the spirits owed a second body by the Fates. They drink deep of the river Lethe’s currents there, long drafts that will set them free of cares, oblivious forever. How long I have yearned to tell you, show them to you, face-to-face, yes, as I count the tally out of all my children’s children. So all the more 830 you can rejoice with me in Italy, found at last.”
