80 Had fasten’d him unto a small spare mast,
Such as seafaring men provide for storms;
To him one of the other twins was bound,
Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:
The children thus disposed, my wife and I,
85 Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix’d,
Fasten’d ourselves at [either end the mast];
[And] floating straight, obedient to the stream,
[Was] carried towards Corinth, as we thought.
At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,