With abated rage

So let it be!

Portents and prodigies are loft on me.

I know my fates: To die, to fee no more My much lov'd parents, and my native fhore470 Enough. when heav'n ordains, I fink in night;

Now perish Troy! he said, and rush'd to fight.

The ARGUMENT.

The battel of the Gods, and the acts of Achilles.

JUP

UPITER, upon Achilles's return to the battel, calls a council of the Gods, and permits them to affift either party. The terrors of the combate defcribed, when the Deities are engag'd. Apollo encourages Æneas to meet Achilles. After a long converfation, these two heroes encounter; but Eneas is preferv'd by the assif tance of Neptune. Achilles falls upon the rest of the Trojans, and is upon the point of killing Hector, but Apollo conveys him away in a cloud. Achilles purfues the Trojans with a great flaughter.

The fame day continues. The fcene is in the field before Troy.