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silver thread binding Aeolus’s wind-sack

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silver thread binding Aeolus’s wind-sack
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A silver thread binds the wind-sack so tightly that no side-wind can escape.

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“bound the mouth so tightly with a silver thread that not even a breath of a side-wind could blow from any quarter”

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“bound the mouth so tightly with a silver thread”

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Book 10 · Passage 2

‘Aeolus entertained me for a whole month asking me questions all the time about Troy, the Argive fleet, and the return of the Achaeans. I told him exactly how everything had happened, and when I said I must go, and asked him to further me on my way, he made no sort of difficulty, but set about doing so at once. Moreover, he flayed me a prime ox-hide to hold the ways of the roaring winds, which he shut up in the hide as in a sack—for Jove had made him captain over the winds, and he could stir or still each one of them according to his own pleasure. He put the sack in the ship and bound the mouth so tightly with a silver thread that not even a breath of a side-wind could blow from any quarter. The West wind which was fair for us did he alone let blow as it chose; but it all came to nothing, for we were lost through our own folly.