75When the Trojan ships had overcome this rock and greedy Charybdis with their oars, and when they were already near the Ausonian shore, they are carried back by the wind to the Libyan coast. 78There the Sidonian woman welcomes Aeneas into her heart and her home, she who would not bear well the parting from her Phrygian husband; 80and on a pyre built under pretence of a sacred rite she fell upon the sword, and, deceived herself, deceives all. 82Fleeing again the new walls of the sandy land, and carried back to the seat of Eryx and faithful Acestes, he sacrifices and honours the tomb of his father; 85and he casts off the ships which Juno's Iris had almost burned, and leaves behind the kingdom of Hippotades and the lands smoking with hot sulphur, and the rocks of the Sirens, daughters of Achelous; and his ship, bereft of its pilot, coasts past Inarime and Prochyte and the Pithecusae, set on a barren hill, called after the name of their inhabitants.
91For the father of the gods, once detesting the fraud and perjuries of the Cercopes and the crimes of that deceitful race, changed the men into an ugly animal, so that they could seem at once unlike a man and like one; he shrank their limbs and flattened their noses, turned up from the forehead, and furrowed their faces with an old woman's wrinkles, and sent them, their whole bodies covered with yellowish hair, to this abode; and before that he took away the use of words and of the tongue born for dire perjuries: he left them only the power to complain with a hoarse screech.