But for a foul and bloody sacrifice.
So fell this chaste and tearful victim, slain
Ev’n in her marriage hour; and all to free
Their wind-bound Navy from the fancied let
Of adverse Deities, to such a guilt
Could Superstition prompt a father’s heart.
FROM LUCRETIUS.
Suave, mari magno turbantibus.—Lib. II. v. 1.
Sweet is it, when the stormy winds have roused