upon it), about some five-and-twenty furlongs in bigness: the vines were full of clusters of grapes, out of which we could crush no wine, but only milk: in the midst of the island there was a temple built dedicated to Galatea,A sea nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris, so called because of her whiteness as pure as milk. one of the daughters of Nereus, as by the inscription appeared. As long as we remained there the soil yielded us food and victuals, and our drink was the milk that came out of the grapes: in these, as they said, reigneth Tyro,Of her Neptune begot Pelias, and Neleus, the father of Nestor. the daughter of Salmoneus,He was king of Elis, a territory of Peloponnesus, and for imitating the thunder by running his chariot over a bridge of brass, was slain with a thunderbolt by Jupiter. who, after her departure, received this guerdon at the hands of Neptune.
In this island we rested ourselves five days, and on the sixth put to sea again, a gentle gale attending us, and the seas all still and quiet. The eighth day, as we