along the swift Shark—Mnestheus, hereafter a prince of
Italy, who gives his name to the Memmian line; there is
Gyas with his monster Chimæra, that monster mass[D] 30
which three tiers of stout Dardans are pulling on, the oars
rising in a triple bank; Sergestus, from whom the Sergian
house gains the name it keeps, sails in the mighty Centaur;
and in the sea-green Scylla Cloanthus, your great forefather,
Cluentius of Rome. 35
At a distance in the sea is a rock, over against the spray-washed