Note 23 — Chapter III · ÆNEAS CONTINUES HIS NARRATIVE.
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There is a fine description of these hags in Morris’s ‘Jason,’ where the voyagers
“Beheld the daughters of the Earth and Sea, The dreadful Snatchers, who like women were Down to the breast, with scanty close black hair About their heads, and dim eyes ringed with red, And bestial mouths set round with lips of lead. But from their gnarled necks there ’gan to spring Half hair, half feathers, and a sweeping wing Grew out instead of arm on either side, And thick plumes underneath the breast did hide The place where joined the fearful natures twain.