[270] For thrice in a day she sends it out, and thrice she sucks it in. Odyssey xii. 105.

[271] For thrice in a day she sends it out, and thrice she sucks it in terribly. Mayest thou not come hither when she is gulping it; for not even Neptune could free thee from ill. Odyssey xii. 105.

[272] She gulped up the briny water of the sea; but I, raised on high to the lofty fig-tree, held clinging to it, as a bat. Odyssey xii. 431.

[273] Odyssey v. 306.

[274] Iliad viii. 488.

[275] Iliad iii. 363.

[276] But I held without ceasing, until she vomited out again the mast and keel; and it came late to me wishing for it: as late as a man has risen from the forum to go to supper, adjudging many contests of disputing youths, so late these planks appeared from Charybdis. Odyssey xii. 437.

[277] Gaudus, the little island of Gozo near Malta, supposed by Callimachus to have been the Isle of Calypso.

[278] It seems more probable that Callimachus intended the island of Corsura, now Pantalaria, a small island between Africa and Sicily.

[279] The Atlantic.