n number accompanying me; and with difficulty was safety procured by me
and one companion, by flight; the third of us stained the accursed jaws
of the Laestrygon with his blood. Antiphates pursued us as we fled, and
called together his followers; they flocked together, and, without
intermission, they showered both stones and beams, and they overwhelmed
men, and ships, too, did they overwhelm; yet one, which carried us and
Ulysses himself, escaped. A part of our companions {thus} lost, grieving
and lamenting much we arrived at those regions which thou perceivest
afar hence. Look! afar hence thou mayst perceive an island,[22] that has
been seen by me; and do thou, most righteous of the Trojans, thou son of
a Goddess, (for, since the war is ended, thou art not, AEneas, to be
called an enemy) I warn thee--avoid the shores of Circe."

[Footnote 15: _Euboean city._--Ver. 155. 'Cumae' was said to have
been founded by a colony from Chalcis, in Euboea.]

[Footnote 16: _Of his nurse._--Ver. 157. Caieta was the name of
the nurse of AEneas, who was said to have been buried there by
him.]

[Footnote 17: _Barbarian._--Ver. 163. That is, Trojan; to the
Greeks all people but themselves were +barbaroi+.]

[Footnote 18: _His own master._--Ver. 166. 'Now his own master,'
in contradistinction to the time when Macareus looked on himself
as the devoted victim of Polyphemus.]

[Footnote 19: _Nearly causing._--Ver. 181. Homer, in the Ninth
Book of the Odyssey, recounts how Ulysses, after having put out
the eye of Polyphemus, fled to his own ship, and when the Giant
followed, called out to him, disclosing his real name; whereas, he
had before told the Cyclop that his name was +outis+, 'nobody.' By
this indiscreet action, the Cyclop was able to ascertain the
locality of the ship, and nearly sank it with a mass of rock which
he hurled in that direction.]

[Footnote 20: _I imagined that._--Ver. 203-4. 'Et jam prensurum,
jam, jam mea viscera rebar In sua mersurum.' Clarke thus renders
these words; 'And now I thought he would presently whip me up, and
cram my bowels within his own.']

[Footnote 21: _The ancient city._--Ver. 233. This city was
afterwards known as Formiae, in Campania.]

[Footnote 22: _An island._--Ver. 245. Macareus here points towards
the promontory of Circaeum, which was supposed to have formerly
been an island.]