ph{=e}mus; then sailing to AEolia, he obtained from AE{)o}lus all the
winds which were contrary to him, and put them into leathern bags; his
companions, however, believing these bags to be full of money, entered
into a plot to rob him, and accordingly, when they came on the coast of
Ith{)a}ca, untied the bags, upon which the wind rushing out, he was
again blown back to AEolia.

When Circe had turned his companions into swine and other brutes, he
first fortified himself against her charms with the herb Moly, an
antidote Mercury had given him; and then rushing into her cave with his
drawn sword, compelled her to restore his associates to their original
shape.

He is said to have gone down into hell, to know his future fortune, from
the prophet Tiresias. When he sailed to the islands of the Sirens, he
stopped the ears of his companions, and bound himself with strong ropes
to the ship's mast, that he might secure himself against the snares into
which, by their charming voices, passengers were habitually allured.
Lastly, after his ship was wrecked, he escaped by swimming, and came
naked and alone, to the port of Phaeacia, in the island of Corcyra, where
Nausic{)a}a, daughter of king Alcin{)o}us, found him in a profound
sleep, into which he was thrown by the indulgence of Minerva.

When his companions were found, and his ship refitted, he bent his
course toward Ith{)a}ca, where arriving, and having put on the habit of
a beggar, he went to his neatherds, with whom he found his son
Telemachus, and with them went home in disguise. After having received
several affronts from the suitors of Penel{)o}pe, with the assistance of
his son Telemachus and the neatherds, to whom he had discovered himself,
he killed Antin{)o}us, and the other princes who were competitors for
her favor. After reigning some time, he resigned the government of his
kingdom to Telemachus.

CASTOR and POLLUX were the twin sons of Jupiter and Leda. These brothers
entered into an inviolable friendship, and when they grew up, cleared
the Archipelago of pirates, on which account they were esteemed deities
of the sea, and accordingly were invoked by mariners in tempests. They
went with the other noble youths of Greece in the expedition to Colchis,
in search of the golden fleece, and on all occasions signalized
themselves by their courage.

In this expedition Pollux slew Amycus, son of Neptune, and king of
Bebrycia, who had challenged all the Argonauts to box wit