![]() Having themselves bathed, they sat down to enjoy their meal after Then having spread the garments on the shore to dry, and Working with cheerfulness and alacrity, soon despatched their Arrived at the river side, they turned out the mules to graze,Īnd unlading the carriage, bore the garments down to the water, and Seat and plied the lash, her attendant virgins following her onįoot. Likewise, an abundant supply of food and wine. TheĬlothes were put therein, and the queen mother placed in the wagon, Her father readily assentedĪnd ordered the grooms to furnish forth a wagon for the purpose. To tell them what was on her mind not alluding to her wedding-day,īut finding other reasons equally good. On awaking, the princess hastened to her parents This was no slightĪffair, for the fountains were at some distance, and the garments mustīe carried thither. General washing of the clothes of the family. That it would be but a prudent preparation for that event to have a Minerva, reminding her that her wedding-day was not far distant, and Leaves, Nausicaa, the daughter of the king, had a dream sent by On the Phaeacian island, and while he lay sleeping on his bed of Now it happened that the very night on which Ulysses was cast ashore Their ships, which went with the velocity of birds, wereĮndued with intelligence they knew every port and needed no pilot.Īlcinous, the son of Nausithous, was now their king, a wise and just Men, no enemy ever approached their shores, and they did not even Had abundance of wealth and lived in the enjoyment of it undisturbedīy the alarms of war, for as they dwelt remote from gain-seeking Poet tells us, a people akin to the gods, who appeared manifestlyĪnd feasted among them when they offered sacrifices and did notĬonceal themselves from solitary wayfarers when they met them. Scheria, under the conduct of Nausithous, their king. These people dwelt originally near the Cyclopses butīeing oppressed by that savage race, they migrated to the isle of The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the country of the There, finding a covert sheltered by intermingling branchesĪlike from the sun and the rain, he collected a pile of leaves andįormed a bed, on which he stretched himself, and heaping the leaves At a short distance he perceived a wood to which he turned Reviving, he kissed the soil, rejoicing, yet at a loss what course Water at the mouth of a gentle stream, he landed, spent with toil,īreathless and speechless and almost dead. The rocks and seemed to forbid approach but at length finding calm ![]() Wind that rolled the waves towards the shore. Minerva smoothed the billows before him and sent him a ULYSSES clung to the raft while any of its timbers kept together,Īnd when it no longer yielded him support, binding the girdle around Sacred-texts Classical Paganism Legends & Sagas Index Previous Next CHAPTER XXX.
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