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keel found beneath Ulysses

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keel found beneath Ulysses
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·Remembered

Calypso finds shipwrecked Ulysses sitting alone astride a keel.

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“the poor creature sitting all alone astride of a keel”

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·Remembered
“I found the poor creature sitting all alone astride of a keel”
·Remembered
“I stuck to the keel and was carried hither and thither”
·Remembered
“her keel (which drifted about by itself)”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 10

Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this, ‘You gods,’ she exclaimed, ‘ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony. So when rosy-fingered Dawn made love to Orion, you precious gods were all of you furious till Diana went and killed him in Ortygia. So again when Ceres fell in love with Ia sion, and yielded to him in a thrice-ploughed fallow field, Jove came to hear of it before so very long and killed Iasion with his thunderbolts. And now you are angry with me too because I have a man here. I found the poor creature sitting all alone astride of a keel, for Jove had struck his ship with lightning and sunk it in mid ocean, so that all his crew were drowned, while he himself was driven by wind and waves on to my island. I got fond of him and cherished him, and had set my heart on making him immortal, so that he should never grow old all his days; still I cannot cross Jove, nor bring his counsels to nothing; therefore, if he insists upon it, let the man go beyond the seas again; but I cannot send him anywhere myself for I have neither ships nor men who can take him. Nevertheless I will readily give him such advice, in all good faith, as will be likely to bring him safely to his own country.’