Juliers

(Hak. 1. 312.) Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 81. Also called Julich, a town in the Rhine Province, Pru ia. Formerly also a district surrounding the city, between the Meuse and the Rhine. Justling Rocks. P. L. 2. 1018. (See also Bosporus.) The Symplegades, two rocks at the entrance of the Euxine into the Bosporus, said to crush ve els between them. Milton’s adjective “justling” is a translation of the word “Symplegades.” Juvenal calls them “concurrent i a sax a.” (Sai. 15. 19.) A poll on i us Rhodius writes: ” [The Argonauts] came to the strait of the winding pa age, walled in with beetling crags on either side, while an eddying current from below washed up against the ship as it went on its way; and on they went in grievous fear, and already on their ears the thud of clashing rocks smote unceasingly, and the dripping rocks roared; in that very hour the hero Euphemus clutched the dove in his hand, and went to take his stand upon the prow, while they, at the bidding of Tiphys, son of Hagnias, rowed with a will, that they might drive right through the rocks, trusting in their might. And as they rounded a bend, they saw those rocks opening for the last time of all. And their spirit melted at the sight; but the hero Euphemus sent forth the dove to dart through on her wings, and they, one and all, up their heads to see, and she sped through them, but at once the two rocks met again with a clash; and the foam leapt up in a seething ma like a cloud, and grimly roared the sea, and all around the great firmament bellowed. And the hollow caves echoed beneath the rugged rocks as the sea went surging in, and high on the clififs was the white spray vomited as the billow dashed upon them. Then did the current spin the ship lifted round. And the rocks cut off just the tail-feathers of the dove, but she darted away unhurt. And loudly the rowers cheered, but Tiphys himself shouted to them to row lustily, for once more the rocks were opening. Then came trembling on them as they rowed, until the wave with its returning wash came and bore the ship within the rocks. Thereon most awful fear seized on all, for above their head was death with no escape; and now on this side and on that lay broad Pontus to their view, when suddenly in front up rose a mighty arching wave, like to a steep hill, and they bowed down their heads at the sight. For it seemed as if it must indeed leap down and whelm the ship entirely. But Tiphys was quick to ease her as she laboured to the rowing, and the wave rolled with all his force beneath the keel, and lifted up the ship herself from underneath, far from the rocks, and high on the crest of the billow she was borne. Then did Euphemus go amongst the crew, and call to them to lay on to their oars with all their might, and they smote the water at his cry. So she sprang forward twice as far as any other ship would have yielded to rowers, and the oars bent like curved bows as the heroes strained. In that instant the vaulted wave was past them, and she at once was riding over the furious billow like a roller, plunging headlong forward o’er the trough of the sea. But the eddying current stayed the ship in the midst of ‘the Clashers,’ and they quaked on either side, and thundered, and the ship timbers throbbed. Then did Athene with her left hand hold the stubborn rock apart, while with her right she thrust them through upon their course; and the ship shot through the air like a winged arrow. Yet the rocks, ceasele ly dashing together, crushed off, in pa ing, the tip of the carved stern.” (Argonautic a 2. 549-602.) 179