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66 that such had been the frequent warning of Cassandra—the prophetess to whom none would listen. They re-embarked accordingly. After a storm of three days and three nights, when no pilot could keep the course, they were cast upon the islands of the Harpies —the monster sisters, half women and half birds, foul and loathsome, who are hateful to gods and men. With them they had to do battle for the meal which they had spread; and one of those hags, in her wrath, prophesied that before they reached their promised Hesperia they should be forced "to eat their tables."

The description of the ensuing voyage, in Mr Conington's tasteful translation, reads like a passage from the 'Lord of the Isles,' yet presents a fair equivalent, especially in the last fine touch, to the Latin original:—

The south wind freshens in the sail;

We hurry o'er the tide,

Where'er the helmsman and the gale

Conspire our course to guide;

Now rises o'er the foamy flood

Zacynthos, with its crown of wood,