penned us by main might in his hollow cave; Menn Javier Aquino Fotballdrakter yet even thence we made escape by my Menn Mamadou Sakho Fotballdrakter manfulness, even by my counsel and my wit, and some day I think that this adventure too we shall remember. Come now, therefore, let us all give ear to do according to my word. Do ye smite the deep surf of the sea with your oars, as ye sit on the benches, if peradventure Zeus may grant us to escape from and shun this death. And as for thee, helmsman, thus I charge thee, and ponder it in thine heart seeing that thou wieldest the helm of the hollow ship. Keep the ship well away from this smoke and from the wave and hug the rocks, lest the ship, ere thou art aware, start from her course to the other side, and so thou hurl us into ruin.”
22 Reading [Greek], not [Greek] with La Roche.}
‘So I spake, and quickly they hearkened to my words. But of Scylla I told them nothing more, a bane none might deal with, Menn Manuel Locatelli Fotballdrakter lest haply my company should cease from rowing for fear, and hide them in the hold. In that same hour I suffered myself to forget the hard behest of Circe, in that she bade me Menn Gabi Fotballdrakter in nowise be armed; but I did on my glorious harness and caught up two long lances in my hands, and went on Menn Chuba Akpom Fotballdrakter the decking of the prow, for thence methought that Scylla of the rock would first be seen, who was to bring woe on my company. Yet could I not spy her anywhere, and my eyes waxed weary for gazing all about toward the darkness of the rock.
“Next we began to sail up the narrow strait lamenting. For on the one hand lay Scylla, and on the other mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. As often as she belched it forth, like a cauldron Menn Harry Winks Fotballdrakter on a great fire she would seethe up through all her troubled deeps, and overhead the spray fell on the tops of either cliff. But oft as she gulped down the Menn Gianluigi Donnarumma Fotballdrakter salt sea water, within she was all plain to see through her troubled deeps, and the rock around roared horribly and beneath the earth was manifest swart with sand, and pale fear gat hold on my men. Toward her, then, we looked fearing destruct |
