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 his Danaan conquerors.' Then I give the word to leave the haven and take seat on the benches. Each vying with each, the crews strike the water and sweep the marble surface. In due course we hide from view the airy summits     5 of Phæacian[o] land, coast the shore of Epirus, enter the Chaonian haven, and approach Buthrotum's lofty tower.

"Here a rumour of events past belief takes hold of our ears—that Helenus, son of Priam, is reigning among Grecian cities, lord of the wife and crown of Pyrrhus,     10 Achilles' very son, and that Andromache had again been given to a husband of her own nation. I was astounded: my heart kindled with a strange longing to have speech of my old friend, and learn all about this wondrous stroke of fortune. So I advance into the country from the haven,      15 leaving fleet and coast behind, at the very time when Andromache, before the city, in a grove, by the wave of a mock Simois, was celebrating a yearly banquet, the offering of sorrow, to the dead, and invoking her Hector's shade at a tomb called by his name, an empty mound of      20 green turf which she had consecrated to him with two altars, that she might have the privilege of weeping. Soon as her wild eye saw me coming with the arms of Troy all about me, scared out of herself by the portentous sight, she stood chained to earth while yet gazing—life's     25 warmth left her frame—she faints, and after long time scarce finds her speech:—'Is it a real face that I see? are those real lips that bring me news? Goddess-born, are you among the living? or, if the blessed light has left you, where is my Hector?' She spoke—her tears flowed     30 freely, and the whole place was filled with her shrieks. Few, and formed with labour, are the words I address to her frenzied ear, broken and confused the accents I utter:—'Aye, I live, sure enough, and through the worst of fortunes am dragging on life still. Doubt it not, your eye     35 tells you true. Alas! on what chance have you alit, fallen from the height where your first husband throned you? What smile has Fortune bright enough to throw