Cf. Arnold on Translating Homer, p.207, "'The losses of the heavens," says Horace, "fresh moons speedily repair; we, when we have gone down where the pious Aeneas, where the rich Tullus and Ancus are,--pulvis et umbra sumus." He never actually says where we go to; he only indicates it by saying that it is that place where Aeneas, Tullus, and Ancus are. But Homer, when he has to speak of going down to the grave, says definitely, "The immortals shall send thee to the Elysian plain."'
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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