{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/luc/wl1/wl141.htm","path":"cla/luc/wl1/wl141.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl1/wl141.htm","text":"Iris. Posidon\nIr. Posidon: you know that floating island, that was torn away from Sicily, and is still drifting about under water; you are to bring it to the surface, Zeus says, and fix it well in view in the middle of the Aegean; and mind it is properly secured; he has a use for it.\nPos. Very good. And when I have got it up, and anchored it, what is he going to do with it?\nIr. Leto is to lie in there; her time is near.\nPos. And is there no room in Heaven? Or is Earth too small to hold her children?\nIr. Ah, you see, Hera has bound the Earth by a great oath not to give shelter to Leto in her travail. This island, however, being out of sight, has not committed itself.\nPos. I see.--Island, be still! Rise once more from the depths; and this time there must be no sinking. Henceforth you are terra firma; it will be your happiness to receive my brother's twin children, fairest of the Gods.--Tritons, you will have to convey Leto across. Let all be calm.--As to that\nserpent who is frightening her out of her senses, wait till these children are born; they will soon avenge their mother.--You can tell Zeus that all is ready. Delos stands firm: Leto has only to come.\nF.","title":"Works of Lucian, Vol. I: Dialogues of the Sea-gods: X","type":"page"}