Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny (1895)
Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 114
01 to ride about on their backs and enjoy the rocking of the billows. Now one of these nymphs was named Galatea, and she was very white, as white as marble. And she combed her hair while she swam around basking in the sunshine. There was a great giant standing on the shore. He had one vast fiery… … 102 STORIES FROM PLATO her white robes and her white facesurrounded by her hundred sisters.When the rough old giant lookedat her, his heart began to meltwithin him and he loved the whitemaiden with a raging love thatkindled a mighty fire in his bosom. He never had been used to combhis hair and his…