634Night comes on, and sleep takes hold of bodies worn by cares: before my eyes the same oak seemed to be present, and to bear as many branches and as many creatures on its branches, and to tremble with the same motion, and to scatter the grain-bearing column on the fields beneath; 639and they seemed suddenly to grow and look larger and larger, and to raise themselves from the ground and stand with upright trunk, and to put off their leanness and their number of feet and their black colour, and to put human form upon their limbs. 643Sleep departs: awake, I condemn my visions and complain that there is no help in the gods.
644But in the palace there was a great murmur, and I seemed to hear men's voices, now unfamiliar to me. 646While I suspect that these too belong to sleep, Telamon comes in haste, and, throwing open the doors, says, 'Father, you will see things greater than your hope and belief: come out!' 649I come out, and men such as I had seemed to see in the image of my sleep, just such I see, one after another, and recognise. 651They approach and greet their king. 652I pay my vows to Jupiter, and divide the city among the new peoples, and the fields empty of their former tillers, and call them Myrmidons, and do not cheat the name of its origin.
655You have seen their bodies; 655the habits they had before, they have now as well: they are a thrifty race, enduring of toil, tenacious of what they have gained and ready to store up what they gain. 658These, your equals in years and spirit, will follow you to war, as soon as the east wind that brought you here so fortunately' (for it was the east wind that had brought him) 'has changed into south winds.'