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This is what the captain said they found when it was still night and pitch dark. But the gods were moved by their lamentations, and showed fire from Lycia, so that they knew the place. One of the Dioscuri [*] put a bright star [*] on the masthead, and guided the ship in a turn to port into the open sea, just as it was driving on to the cliff. Then, having now lost their course, they sailed across the Aegean beating up with the trade winds against them, and yesterday, seventy days after leaving Egypt, they anchored in Piraeus, after being driven

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so far downwind. They should have kept Crete to starboard, and sailed beyond Malea so as to be in Italy by now.

LYCINUS

Upon my word, thats an amazing pilot you speak of, this Heron, as old as Nereus, [*] who went so far astray.

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