it, and turned his steps towards the noise he heard. 25

But when he finds he has no means of grasping at us with

his hand, no power of keeping pace with the Ionian waves

in pursuit, he raises a gigantic roar, at which the sea and

all its waters trembled inwardly, and the land of Italy

shuddered to its core, and Ætna bellowed through her 30

winding caverns. But the tribe of the Cyclops, startled

from wood and lofty mountain, rush to the haven and

fill the shore. There we see them standing, each with

the empty menace of his grim eye, the brethren of Ætna,