she thus struck into the middle of his sorrows:—

“Whoever you are, it is not, I trow, under the frown of

heavenly powers that you draw the breath of life,[89] thus to

have arrived at our Tyrian town. Only go on, and make 25

your way straight hence to the queen’s palace. For I

give you news that your comrades are returned and your

fleet brought back, wafted into shelter by shifting gales,

unless my learning of augury was vain, and the parents

who taught me cheats. Look at these twelve swans 30

exultant in victorious column, which the bird of Jove,[90]