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TRUE HISTORY.
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haven, and engraved them upon it. The epigram was this:

Λουκιανὸς τάδε πάντα φίλος μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
Lucian, the gods' belov'd, did once attain
To see all this, and then go home again.

Εἶδέ τε καὶ πάλιν ἦλθεν ἑὴν ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν.

After that day's tarrying, we put to sea, brought onward on our way by the Heroes, where Ulysses closely coming to me that PenelopeThe wife of Ulysses. might not see him, conveyed a letter into my hand to deliver to Calypso in the isle of Ogygia. Rhadamanthus also sent Nauplius,The son of Neptune and Amymone, the daughter of Danaus, King of the Argives. the ferryman, along with us, that if it were our fortune to put into those islands, no man should lay hands upon us, because we were bent upon other employments.