[Footnote 12: λόγους eἰς εὐωχίαν ἐρανιζομενός. ἕρανος--a meal to which each contributed his share either in victuals or money.] [Footnote 13: Nausicles was to assist him in the recovery of Theagenes, whom he regarded in the light of a son.] [Footnote 14: See beginning of Book V.] [Footnote 15: South of Ætolia, the modern Gulf of Patras.] [Footnote 16: These islands, mentioned before, lie south-west of Acarnania.] [Footnote 17: In Idyll. xxi. of Theocritus, the fisherman's tackle is described-- "The basket, rush trap, line, and reedy shaft, Weed-tangled baits, a drag-net with its drops, Hooks, cord"....--Chapman's Tr. ] [Footnote 18: "Κῦμα ίπ'ι κῦμα προσίβαλλεν ὁ δαίμων, Οἷός σε χειμὼν καὶ κακῶν τρικυμία, Ἕπεισ' ἃφυκτος."--Æsch. P. V. 1015. ] [Footnote 19: Ulysses.] [Footnote 20: A ship had one, but more commonly two rudders. (See Acts xxvii. 40.) In the Caspian Sea, where the old practice not long ago remained in force, a modern traveller was nearly shipwrecked, because the rudders were in the hands of two pilots _who spoke different languages_. To obviate such disasters among the ancients, the same steersman held both tillers, if the boat was small. In larger ships the extremities of the helms were joined by a pole, which was moved by one man and kept the rudders always parallel.--Smith's Greek and Rom. Antiq.] [Footnote 21: ἧν μὲν ἥδε τῆς ἡμέρας ὅτε ἀρότρου βοῦν ἐλeυθερoῖ γηπόνος. Adverbially in Homer, βουλυτόνδε, at eventide.--Il. xvi. 779.] [Footnote 22: Raphael has chosen this incident for the subject of a painting.] [Footnote 23: πᾶν ναυτιλιάς ἐσχεδιάζετο.] [Footnote 24: On the duties of the πρῳρεύς and the amount of nautical skill required in the pilot, see Potter's Antiq. ii. 144-146.] [Footnote 25: τρικυμίαις επαλλήλοις ἐλαυνομένων.] [Footnote 26: See Il. vi. 289. .... "Mantles of all hues, accomplish'd works Of fair Sidonians wafted o'er the deep." ] [Footnote 27: See Book I.] BOOK VI. Calasiris and Cnemon betook themselves to their apartments on the men's side of the house, and composed themselves to rest. The night was quickly past, great part of it having been consumed in the preceding feast, and subsequent narration; but it passed too slowly for their impatience; and almost before day they were up, and presented themselves to Nausicles, urging him to inform them where he thought Theagenes was, and to lead them to him as soon as possible. He was not slow in complying with their request, and they set out under his direction. Chariclea was very earnest to accompany them, but they pressed, and at last obliged, her to remain where she was; Nausicles assuring her that they were not going far, and that they would soon return, and bring Theagenes with them. Here then they left her, struggling between sorrow for their departure, and joy for the promised hope of seeing her lover.