The Story of the Romans (Yesterday's Classics)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE CLEVER TRICK. AFTER many days of sailing thus on the blue waters ' of the Mediterranean, and after much suffering in the different islands where they stopped to rest, Eneas and his companions came at last to the island ip, f Sic'i-ly. This, as you will see onjrour-jiaps, is a three-cornered piece of land, near the toe of the boot formed by the I-tal'ian peninsula. While the Trojans were resting here, poor oloTAnchises died, and was buried by his ..sorrowing son. But as soon as the funeral rites were emled, /Eneas prepared to sail away, for he knew that this was not the place where he was to make his new home. Unfortunately for /Eneas, some of the gods whom his people had so long worshiped had taken a dislike to all the Trojan race. It was these gods who made him suffer so much, and one of them now stirred up a terrible tempest. The boats were tossed up and down on the waves, and driven apart by the fierce winds, and some of them sank under the water. The other vessels would have been dashed to pieces, and all the men on board would have perished, had not a second god interfered in favor of /Eneas, and suddenly stilled the awful storm. The wind was so high, the darkness so great, and the lightning flashes so blinding, that /Eneas had lost his bearings. When the storm was over, he sailed for the nearest land, and came to the coast of what is now Tu'nis; but he had no idea where he was. He therefore bade his companions remain on the ships, while he went ashore STO. OF ROM. ?2 with only one man, ? the faithful A-cha'tes, who always went with him, and was his devoted friend. So these two men started out and began cautiously to explore the country where they had landed, trying to find some one who could tell them where they were. Before long they met a beaut..… (more)