664Eumelus carries the news of the burning ships to the tomb of Anchises and the tiers of the theatre, and they themselves look back and see black ash flying in a cloud. 667And Ascanius first, just as he was gladly leading the cavalry manoeuvres, so eagerly made on horseback for the troubled camp, and his breathless instructors cannot hold him back. 670'What strange madness is this? 670Where now, where are you heading,' he says, 'alas, wretched citizens? 671It is not the enemy or a hostile Argive camp you are burning, but your own hopes. 672Look, I am your Ascanius!' 673He threw down before his feet the empty helmet, wearing which in play he had been stirring up images of war; 675Aeneas hurries up at the same time, at the same time the Trojan columns.
676But the women scatter in fear in every direction along the shores, and stealthily make for the woods and any hollow rocks there are; 678they loathe their deed and the daylight, and, changed, recognise their own people, and Juno is shaken from their hearts.