Note 87 — THE SEVEN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THEBES
E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation
As now the sailor of the Mediterranean turns to the image of his patron saint, so of old he ran in his distress to the figure of his God upon the prow of his ship (often, as in Acts xxviii. II, that of the Dioscuri), and called to it for deliverance (comp. Jonah i. 8).