couch at the banquets of the gods, and makest me lord

of the storm-cloud and of the tempest.”

So soon as this was said, he turned his spear, and pushed

the hollow mountain on its side; and the winds, as though 35

in column formed, rush forth[32] where they see any outlet,

and sweep over the earth in hurricane. Heavily they

fall[33] on the sea, and from its very bottom crash down the

whole expanse—one and all, east and south, and south-west,

with his storms thronging at his back, and roll huge

billows shoreward. Hark to the shrieks of the crew, and