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having been fitted together, makes the wall. In this way, indeed, this ship having been made offers a sight better than the description, since the nature of things always makes those works which happen with the greatest unexpectedness not easy for men to describe, but in its conceptions 8.22.16 it overcomes the customary and masters reason. And indeed, of these timbers none has either rotted or shews any sign of being decayed, but the ship, being sound in every part, as if just recently built for her craftsman, whoever he was, is strong even to my day to a wondrous degree. So, then, the matters concerning this ship of Aeneas stand. 8.22.17 But Totila, having manned about three hundred long ships with Goths, ordered them to go to Hellas, having instructed them to plunder with all their force those they fell in with. 8.22.18 And this fleet, as far as the land of the Phaeacians, which is now called Corcyra, was not able to do any harm. 8.22.19 For it happens that there is no inhabited island on this voyage from the strait by Charybdis as far as Corcyra, so that I, having often been there, was at a loss as to where the island of Calypso 8.22.20 could be. For in this sea I have seen no island anywhere, except three, not far from Phaeacis, but about three hundred stades away, being very close to one another, quite small and having neither dwellings of men nor animals nor anything else at all. And these islands are now called Othonoi. 8.22.21 And one might say that Calypso was here, and that from it Odysseus, being not far from the land of Phaeacis, crossed over from here either on a raft, as Homer says, or in some other way without any ship. But let these things be said by us only as a matter of conjecture. 8.22.22 For it is not easy to fit the true account with precision to the most ancient things, since the great length of time is wont for the most part to change both the names of places and the opinion about them. 8.22.23 For instance, the ship, which made of white stone stands by its shore in the land of the Phaeacians, some think to be that which carried Odysseus to Ithaca, when it happened that he was entertained there. 8.22.24 And yet this ship is not of a single form, but is composed of very many stones. 8.22.25 And letters have been carved on it and it plainly proclaims that some one of the merchants in ancient times set up 8.22.26 this offering to Zeus Casius. For the people here once honored Zeus Casius, since also the city, in which this ship stands, is called Cassope to this day. 8.22.27 And in this manner, from many stones, that ship also has been made which Agamemnon son of Atreus dedicated to Artemis in Geraestus of Euboea, expiating in this also his outrage against her, when because of the suffering of Iphigenia 8.22.28 Artemis allowed the Greeks to sail away. which letters, carved on this ship either then or later, declare in hexameter. Of which the greater part have become faint with long time, but the first parts are still visible to this day, saying thus: Agamemnon set me up here, a ship of stone, a sign for the sailing army of the Hellenes. 8.22.29 and at the beginning it has "Tynnichus made it for Artemis Bolosia." For thus they called Eileithyia in ancient times, since they also called the pains of childbirth "bolae." But I must go back again to the point where I digressed. 8.22.30 When this fleet of the Goths arrived at Corcyra, they plundered and carried off booty from it by raid and from as many other islands lie near it, which are called Sybota; 8.22.31 and having crossed over suddenly to the mainland as well, they plundered all the places around Dodona and especially Nicopolis and Anchialus, where indeed the local people say that Anchises, the father of Aeneas, sailing with his son after the capture of Ilium, disappeared from among men 8.22.32 and gave his name to the place. And going around the whole coastline and encountering many Roman ships, they took them all, cargoes and all. Among them happened to be some of the ships which were bringing provisions from Hellas to the army of Narses. So these things, then, happened to take place in this way. 8.23.1 But Totila, long before, an army of Goths to

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