135Having spoken so, he then wreathes his temples with a leafy branch and prays to the spirit of the place, and to Earth, first of the gods, and to the nymphs and the rivers as yet unknown; then he invokes Night and the rising stars of Night, and Idaean Jupiter, and the Phrygian Mother, each in turn, and his two parents, in heaven and in Erebus. 141At this the almighty father thundered three times, clear from high heaven, and himself, shaking it in his hand, displayed from the sky a cloud blazing with rays of golden light. 144Suddenly a rumour spreads through the Trojan ranks that the day has come on which they are to found their promised walls.
146Eagerly they renew the feast, and, glad at the great omen, set out the mixing bowls and crown the wine.