wind whelmed them both, engulfing the vessel and its
crew. 10
Lo! he sees his pilot, Palinurus, moving along—Palinurus,
who but now, while voyaging from Libya, his eyes
bent on the stars, had fallen’ from the stern, flung out
into the wide waste of waters. So when he had at last
taken knowledge of his features, now saddened, in the 15
deep gloom, he thus accosts him first: “Who was it,
Palinurus, of all the gods, that tore you from us, and
whelmed you in the wide sea? Tell me who. Till now