ess horror,--for fear through fright my men might cease
to row, and huddle all together in the hold. I disregarded too the hard
behest of Circe, when she had said I must by no means arm. Putting on my
glittering armor and taking in my hands my two long spears, I went upon
the ship's fore-deck, for thence I looked for the first sight of Scylla of
the rocks, who brought my men disaster. Nowhere could I descry her; I
tried my eyes with searching up and down the dusky cliff.

So up the strait we sailed in sadness; for here lay Scylla, and there
divine Charybdis fearfully sucked the salt sea-water down. Whenever she
belched it forth, like a kettle in fierce flame all would foam swirling
up, and overhead spray fell upon the tops of both the crags. But when she
gulped the salt sea-water down, then all within seemed in a whirl; the
rock around roared fearfully, and down below the bottom showed, dark with
the sand. Pale terror seized my men; on her we looked and feared to die.

And now it was that Scylla snatched from the hollow ship six of my
comrades who were best in skill and strength. Turning my eyes toward my
swift ship to seek my men, I saw their feet and hands already in the air
as they were carried up. They screamed aloud and called my name for the
last time, in agony of heart. As when a fisher, on a jutting rock, with
long rod throws a bait to lure the little fishes, casting into the deep
the horn of stall-fed ox; then, catching a fish, flings it ashore
writhing,--even so were these drawn writhing up the rocks. There at her
door she ate them, loudly shrieking and stretching forth their hands in
mortal pangs toward me. That was the saddest sight my eyes have ever seen,
in all my toils, searching the ocean pathways.

ULYSSES IN ITHACA

ULYSSES LANDS ON THE SHORE OF ITHACA

By F. S. Marvin, R. J. C. Mayor, and F. M. Stowell

[For ten years Ulysses was driven hither and thither over the
water, seeking for his homeland, Ithaca. At length he was
shipwrecked on the shores of Phoeacia. The king, Alcinous,
entertained him most hospitably, and Ulysses related to him the
story of his wanderings.]

When Ulysses had finished his story, there was silence in the hall till
Alcinous said, "Ulysses, now that you have come to my house after all
these troubles, you shall return without more wandering to your home." And
then he bade the princes go home for the night and meet again in the
morning to bri