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— mortals, yet nothing is more obscure to men than [their own] mind.

, O Neptune, of mighty strength, Earth-Shaker, ruling over wide and yellow Helicon, and grant a favourable breeze, and to obtain a safe journey, to the sailors, who are the guides and pilots of the ship. And grant that I, coming to the foot of lofty-cragged Mimas, may meet with merciful and holy mortals. And may I be avenged on the man, who having deceived my mind, injured hospitable Jove and the guests' table.

earth, giver of all, giver of agreeable wealth, how fruitful indeed hast thou proved to some men! but to some, with whom thou wast wrathful, how disagreeable and hard a soil!

sailors, like unto hateful fate, having a life that unhappily emulates the timid coots, reverence the deity of hospitable Jove who rules on high, for dreadful is the after-vengeance of hospitable Jove [upon] whoever offends.

tree sends forth better fruit than thou, O Pine, on the heights of many-recessed, wind-swept Ida. There shall