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He saw that the fleet of Aeneas had been scattered over the whole sea, and the Trojans

crushed by the waves and the downfall of the sky. Nor did the deceit and anger of Juno escape the notice of the brother. He called the East and West wind to him, thereupon he said the following: Has so great a confidence to your class held you? Now do you dare to mix the sky and earth into confusion without my divine approval, winds, and to lift such great masses? You whom Ibut it is better to settle the moved waves. After, you will atone to me for the crime by a not similar punishment. Hasten flight and tell to your king the following: that not to him the control of the sea and fierce trident have been given, but to me by lot. He holds the huge rock, your home, Eurus; let Aeolus toss himself around in that court and let him rule in the enclosed prison of the winds. Thus he said and sooner than the things having been said, he calmed the swelling seas and routed the gathered clouds, and led back the sun. Cymothoe and Triton, likewise striving, dislodged the ships from the sharp cliff; (Neptune) he himself lifted them with his trident and opened the vast sand bars and calmed the sea and glided over the highest waves with light wheels. And just as in great people when often a riot rises and the crowd rages with common spirit; and now, torches and stones fly, madness supplying their arms; then if a man grave with loyalty and merits whom they see by chance, they are still and stand near with raised ear; he rules the spirits with words and calms the hearts: so all uproar of the sea subsided, after that the father, looking out at the sea and having carried in the open sky, turned his horses and cart, and flying, gave the reins to the obedient.

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