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7—19. 1—3. journeying ships, when the wintry tempests wax violent on the unsoftened sea. But they, making vows from their ships, invoke the sons of mighty Jove with [offerings of] white lambs, having ascended the heights of the poop, which the mighty wind and the billow of the sea have brought below the waves. But they forthwith appear, flitting through the sky on their swarthy wings. And straightway they appease the eddyings of troubling winds, and smoothly spread the waves and the billows of the white sea for the sailors, fair signs of toil for their sake; but they perceiving it, rejoice, and cease from their grievous toil. Hail! sons of Tyndarus, mounters of swift steeds: but I will be mindful of you and of another song.  

to sing fair-haired Ceres, a hallowed goddess, herself and her long-ancled daughter, whom Pluto snatched away (but heavily-thundering, far-seeing Jove gave her) from 