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Of my revealings. Or rather I will pass
The mass of common featured incidents
And to thy latest wanderings proceed.
For, after thou hadst reached Molossia's plains
Set round high-ridged Dodona, where are found
Thesprotian Zeus's oracle and seat, 856 (850)
And that marvel past belief the talking oaks
Which sonorously and in no dark words
Did hail thee the illustrious bride of Zeus,
Thence by the gadfly thou wast maddened on 860 (855)
Along the seaside way until thou camest
To the great gulf of Rhea; whence didst thou
Distressfully return upon thy track.
And be assured that to all coming time
Ionian shall that ocean bay be called, 865 (859)
Memorial of thy passage to mankind.
These things are token to thee of my soul,
That it sees something more than meets the sense.
The rest to you and her alike I show,
Re-entering on the track of former words. 870 (864)
There is a town, Canopus, last in the land,
At the very mouth and sea-bar of the Nile,
And there shall Zeus restore thee to right mind
