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 BOOK I 5 whole expanse “Are ye round by the billow in the spot where she lay, and swal- lowed at once by the greedy gulf. You might see them here and there swimming in that vast abyss — heroes' arms, and planks, and Troy's treasures glimmering through the water. Already Ilioneus' stout ship, already brave 5 Achates', and that in which Abas sailed, and that which carried old Aletes, are worsted by the storm; their side- jointingsº loosened, one and all give entrance to the watery foe, and part failingly asunder. Meantime the roaring riot of the ocean and the storm let 10 loose reached the sense of Neptune, and the still waters disgorged from their deep beds, troubling him grievously; and casting a broad glance over the main he raised at once his tranquil brow from the water's surface. There he sees Æneas' fleet tossed hither and thither over the 15 - the Trojans whelmed under the billows, and the crashing ruin of the sky, nor failed the brother to read Juno's craft and hatred there. East and West he calls before him, and bespeaks them thus : then so wholly o’ermastered by the pride of your birth ? 20 Have ye come to this, ye Winds, that, without sanction from me, ye dare to confoundº sea and land, and upheave these mighty mountains ? yel whom I - but it were best to calm the billows ye bave troubled. Henceforth ye shall pay me for your crimes in far other coin. Make 25 good speed with your flight, and give your king this mes- sage. Not to him did the lot assign the empire of the sea and the terrible trident, but to me. His sway is over those enormous rocks, where you, Eurus,º dwell, and such as you; in that court let Æolus lord it, and rule in the prison- 30 house of the winds when its doors are barred." He speaks, and ere his words are done soothes the swell- ing waters, and routsº the mustered clouds, and brings back the sun in triumph. Cymothoeº and Tritonº com- bine their efforts to push off the vessels from the sharp-35 pointed rock. The god himself upheaves them with his own trident,' and levels the great quicksands, and allays the sea, and on chariot-wheels of lightest motion glides Digitized by Google HARVARD UNIVERSITY