pull of the oars and by the three-fanged beaks.

On to the deep! you would deem that uprooted Cyclades

were swimming the sea, or that tall hills were meeting hills

in battle; such the giant effort, with which the warriors

urge on their tower-crowned ships. From the hand is 25

scattered a shower of flaming tow and flying steel: the

plains of Neptune redden with unwonted carnage. In the

midst of them the queen is cheering on her forces with

the timbrel of her native land; casting as yet no glance on

the twin-born snakes that threaten her rear. There are 30