6 ... But there, all these things were mere play—and no odds. They were no odds, I say, all mere play—and a joke. The real hard work was, when we came near the Setine country; goat-clambered mountains; Ætnas all of them, rugged Athosès.[1636]
7 Besides, the whole of this way is toilsome and muddy—[1637]
8 Moreover, the scoundrel, like a rascally muleteer, knocked against all the stones—[1638]
9 My portmanteau galled my hackney's ribs by its weight.[1639]
10 We pass the promontory of Minerva with oars—[1640]
11 ... four from this to the river Silarus, and the Alburnian harbor.[1641]
12 Hence, I arrive at midnight, by rowing, at Palinurus—[1642]
13 And you shall see, what you have often before wished, the Straits of Messina, and the walls of Rhegium; then Lipara, and the temple of Diana Phacelitis—[1643]
14 ... here the third passes the truck on the top of the mast:[1644]
15 And you will square out the way, as the camp-measurer does....[1645]