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Metamorphoses
Book 14, Line 16 by Henry T. Riley (English)
The other relates how that Æolus rules over the Etrurian seas; Æolus, the grandson of Hippotas, who confines the winds in their prison, which the Dulichean chief had received, shut up in a leather bag , a wondrous gift; how, with a favouring breeze, he had proceeded for nine days, and had beheld the land he was bound for; and how , when the first morning after the ninth had arrived, his companions, influenced by envy and a desire for booty, supposing it to be gold, had cut the fastenings of the winds; and how , through these, the ship had gone back along the waves through which it had just come, and had returned to the harbour of the Æolian king.
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