852Such words he was speaking, and clinging fast to the tiller he never let it go, and kept his eyes on the stars. 854Look, the god shakes over both his temples a bough dripping with Lethe's dew and drugged with Stygian power, and as he resists, loosens his swimming eyes. 857Scarcely had the unexpected rest loosened his limbs, when, leaning over him, the god flung him, with part of the stern torn away and with the rudder, headlong into the clear waves, calling often on his comrades in vain; 861he himself, flying like a bird, rose into the thin air. 862The fleet runs its course safely over the sea none the less, and is borne on unafraid, trusting in father Neptune's promises.
864And now, carried onward, it was nearing the rocks of the Sirens, once dangerous and white with the bones of many, when the rocks were booming hoarsely far off with the constant surf: when the father felt that the ship was drifting aimlessly, its helmsman lost, and he himself steered the ship through the night waves, groaning much, and shaken at heart by his friend's fate: 'O you who trusted too much in a calm sky and sea, you will lie naked on an unknown shore, Palinurus!'