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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hesiod, Theogony | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Then Saturn's son,
the ruler of the seas profound, replied:
“Queen of Cythera, it is meet for thee
to trust my waves from which thyself art sprung.
Have I not proved a friend, and oft restrained
the anger and wild wrath of seas and skies?
On land, let Simois and Xanthus tell
if I have loved Aeneas! On that day
Achilles drove the shuddering hosts of Troy
in panic to the walls, and hurled to death
innumerable foes, until the streams
were choked with dead, and Xanthus scarce could find
his wonted path to sea; that self-same day,
aeneas, spent, and with no help of Heaven,
met Peleus' dreadful son:—who else but I
in cloudy mantle bore him safe afar?
Though 't was my will to cast down utterly
the walls of perjured Troy, which my own hands
had built beside the sea. And even to-day
my favor changes not. Dispel thy fear!
Safe, even as thou prayest, he shall ride
to Cumae's haven, where Avernus lies.
One only sinks beneath th' engulfing seas, —
one life in lieu of many.” Having soothed
and che