Note 121
BOOK XIII
[ We have met with this somewhat lame attempt to cover the writer’s change of scheme at the end of bk. vi.]
…rtain you would get back safely though you would lose all your men, and I did not wish to quarrel with my uncle Neptune, who never forgave you for having blinded his son.[121] I will now, however, point out to you the lie of the land, and you will then perhaps believe me. This is the haven of the old merman Phorcys, and here is the olive tree that grows at the head of it; [near it is the cave sacred to the Naiads;[122] here to…
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