a straight course and direct line, they unanimously veered about, and
making to shore with a little compass for security they delivered
Arion to us in safety, so that he plainly perceived and with thanks
acknowledged a Providence.

When Arion had finished this narrative of his escape, I asked him (quoth
Gorgias) whither the ship was bound; he told me for Corinth, but it
would not be there very suddenly, for when he leaped out of the ship and
was carried (as he conceived) about five hundred furlongs, he perceived
a calm, which must needs much retard their arrival who were aboard.
Gorgias added that, having learned the names of the pilot and master and
the colors of the ship, he immediately despatched out ships and soldier
to examine all the ports, all this while keeping Arion concealed, lest
the criminals should upon notice of His deliverance escape the pursuit
of justice. This action happened very luckily; for as soon as he arrived
at Corinth, news was brought him that the same ship was in port, and
that his party had seized it and secured all the men, merchants and
others. Whereupon Periander commanded Gorgias's discretion and zeal,
desiring him to proceed and lose no time, but immediately to clap them
in close prison, and to suffer none to come at them to give the least
notice of Arion's miraculous escape.

Gentlemen, quoth Aesop, I remember you derided my dialogue of the daws
and rooks; and now you can admire and believe as improbable a story of
dolphins. You are mightily out, said I, for this is no novel story which
we believe, but it is recorded in the annals of Ino and Athamas above
a thousand years ago. These passages are supernatural, quoth Solon and
much above our reason; what befell Hesiod is of a lower kind, and more
proper for our discourse, and if you have not heard of it before, it is
worth your hearing.

Hesiod once sojourned at the same house in Locris with a certain
Milesian. In this his sojourning time it happened the gentleman's
daughter was got with child by the Milesian which being discovered, the
whole family concluded Hesiod, if not guilty, must be privy to the
fact. His innocence was but a weak fence against their jealousy and
aspersions; and therefore, rashly censuring him guilty, the brothers of
the woman waylaid him in his return home, and slew him and his companion
Troilus near the shrine of Nemean Jove in Locris. Their carcasses they
threw into the sea; that of Troilus was carried into th