Note 85
BOOK X
[ One would have thought that when the sun was driving the stag down to the water, Ulysses might have observed its whereabouts.]
…d Dawn, appeared, I called a council and said, ‘My friends, we are in very great difficulties; listen therefore to me. We have no idea where the sun either sets or rises,[85] so that we do not even know East from West. I see no way out of it; nevertheless, we must try and find one. We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it lies low, but t…
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