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their hands to Heaven, and uttered the cries of 

 folicitude, at fight of the danger which threatened 

 thefe poor mariners, and of the fuccefllon of bil- 

 lows which rolled from the Sea, and broke, with 

 a noife like thunder, on the rocks of Sieniclaros. 

 The echoes of Mount Lyceum reverberated their 

 hoarfe and confufed roarings, from all quarters, 

 with fo much exaftnefs, that Tirteus, at times, 

 turned round his head, imagining that the tempeft 

 was behind him, and that the Sea was breaking 

 on the top of the mountain. But the cries of the 

 coots and the fca -gulls, which came, flapping their 

 wings, to feek refuge there, and the flaOies of 

 lightning which furrowed the Horizon, foon made 

 him fenfible, that fafety was on the dry land, and 

 that the tempeft was ftill more dreadful, at a dif- 

 tance, than it appeared to his view. 



Tirteus compaflionated the deftiny of feamen, 

 and pronounced that of fhepherds to be blefled, 

 as it, in fome degree, refembled that of the Gods, 

 by placing tranquillity in his heart, and the tem- 

 peft under his feet. 



While he was exprefling his gratitude to Hea- 

 ven, two men of a noble deportment appeared on 

 the great road, which winded below, toward the 

 bafe of the mountain. One of them was in the 

 full vigor of life, and the other ftill in the bloom 



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