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Now Nausicaa, the daughter of king Alcinous, was washing
the clothes, and when Ulysses implored her
protection, she brought him to Alcinous, who entertained him, and after bestowing gifts on
him sent him away with a convoy to his native land.1 But Poseidon was wroth with
the Phaeacians, and he turned the ship to stone and enveloped the city with a
mountain.2
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1 See Hom. Od. 6; Hom. Od. 7; Hom. Od. 8; Hom. Od. 12.1-124; Hyginus, Fab. 125.
2 See Hom. Od. 12.125-187. “Poseidon does not propose to bury the city, but to shut it off from the use of its two harbours (cp. Hom. Od. 6.263) by some great mountain mass” (Merry on Hom. Od. 12.152).
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