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Celaeno alone, prophetess of ill, alights on a towering cliff, and thus breaks forth in deep accents: "War is it for your slaughtered oxen and steers cut down, O children of Laomedon, war is it you would declare, and drive the guiltless Harpies from their ancestral kingdom?
The shores of the Strophades first receive me thus won from the waves, Strophades the Greek name they bear, islands lying in the great Ionian sea, which boding Celaeno and the other Harpies inhabit since Phineus' house was shut on them, and they fled in terror from the board of old.
The prophet, who my future woes revealed, Yet this, the greatest and the worst, concealed, And dire Celaeno, whose foreboding skill Denounced all else, was silent of this ill."
I'm reading an essay at the society to-night they've fined me twice for neglecting it. But if you stand there reminding me of what's going on outside I'll not be able to resist." "How this would look from Indian Rock!" She flung open a Vergil text-book with a relentless shake of the head. "I've got the place. "'Una in praecelsa consedit rupe Celaeno "
Not Helenus the prophet, though he counselled of many a terror, not boding Celaeno foretold me of this grief. This was the last agony, this the goal of the long ways; thence it was I had departed when God landed me on your coasts. Thus lord Aeneas with all attent retold alone the divine doom and the history of his goings. At last he was hushed, and here in silence made an end.
He pushed back the rebellious lock that insisted on falling down the middle of his forehead, plunged his elbows fiercely upon the table, put his fists against his temples, and began again: "'High on a craggy cliff Celaeno sate And thus her dismal errand did relate Have you got the place in the Latin?" he interrupted himself.
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