Her. Oh no. Their business is to wait upon Posidon, and ride the waves; and if they see a ship in distress, they go aboard of her, and save the crew.
Ap. A most humane profession.
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DIALOGUES OF THE SEA-GODS
I
Doris. Galatea.
Dor. A handsome lover, Galatea, this Sicilian shepherd who they say is so mad for you!
Gal. Don’t be sarcastic, Doris; he is Posidon’s son, after all.
Dor. Well, and if he were Zeus’s, and still such a wild shaggy creature, with only one eye (there is nothing uglier than to have only one eye), do you think his birth would improve his beauty?
Gal. Shagginess and wildness, as you call them, are not ugly in a man; and his eye looks very well in the middle of his forehead, and sees just as well as if it were two.