As for this fellow we men will see to him: I reckon he is bound for Egypt or for Cyprus or to the Hyperboreans or further still. So said he: but the master chid him with taunting words: “Madman, mark the wind and help hoist sail on the ship: catch all the sheets.
Come, then, let us set him free upon the dark shore at once: do not lay hands on him, lest he grow angry and stir up dangerous winds and heavy squalls.” 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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