Book 10.159-165
Aeneas sits on his ship while Pallas asks him many questions. The poet invokes the Muses to help him describe Aeneas' new allies.
Hic magnus sedet Aeneas secumque volutat
159
eventus belli varios, Pallasque sinistro
160
adfixus lateri iam quaerit sidera, opacae
161
noctis iter, iam quae passus terraque marique.
162
Pandite nunc Helicona, deae, cantusque movete,
163
quae manus interea Tuscis comitetur ab oris
164
Aenean armetque rates pelagoque vehatur.
165