![]() ![]() Or Poseidon, for he looks not like mortal men but like the gods who dwell on Olympus. Surely this is either Zeus or Apollo who has the silver bow, “Madmen! what god is this whom you have taken and bind, strong that he is? Not even the well-built ship can carry him. ![]() Then the helmsman understood all and cried out at once to his fellows and said: They sought to bind him with rude bonds, but the bonds would not hold him, and the withes fell far away from his hands and feet: and he sat with a smile Put him on board their ship exultingly for they thought him the son of heaven-nurtured kings. When they saw him they made signs to one another and sprang out quickly, and seizing him straightway Presently there came swiftly over the sparkling sea Tyrsenian 1 pirates on a well-decked ship -a miserable doom led them on. I will tell of Dionysus, the son of glorious Semele, how he appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him,Īnd on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe. ![]()
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