The thing is monstrous and scarcely credible, but when this man returned to earth he disseminated the most odious lies about me.

He affirmed in several passages of his barbarous poems that I had served him as a guide in the modern Tartarus, a place I know nothing of.
He insolently proclaimed that I had spoken of the gods of Rome as false and lying gods, and that I held as the true God the present successor of Jupiter.

Friend, when thou art restored to the kindly light of day and beholdest again thy native land, contradict those abominable falsehoods.
Say to thy people that the singer of the pious Aeneas has never worshipped the god of the Jews.

I am assured that his power is declining and that his approaching fall is manifested by undoubted indications.
This news would give me some pleasure if one could rejoice in these abodes where we feel neither fears nor desires." He spoke, and with a gesture of farewell he went away.

I beheld his.
shade gliding over the asphodels without bending their stalks.