[1298] "This simile is perfectly original, and highly beautiful and expressive. The fears, the tenderness, and unavailing cries of the Phaeacian virgins (who found themselves sent from the ease, the plenty, and indulgence of a palace in Phaeacia, to perish by hunger in that Libyan desert) are well expressed by the helpless state of the young and unfledged birds falling out of the parent nest in a rock, in the absence of the mother" (Preston).
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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