Letter 41: To a Friend.
Letter 41: Hiring a ship
[1] To a Friend
I have hired a ship for you furnished with a crew of sailors of good stock, sailors who trust more to skill than chance in navigation. [2] These vessels of the Carpathians note [Inhabitants of the isle of Carpathus.] have the reputation of being endowed with intelligence, as were the famed ships of the Phaeacians note [Cf. Homer , Odyssey 8.555.] before the wrath of the gods beat upon their island.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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