LASHES FOR THE SEA.
We can imagine our sailors applying alliterative epithets to the Dardanelles when one of the weather interruptions occurs (comments a London journal). But we cannot imagine Admiral Carden doing that sort of thing officially, as Xerxes did when a, utorm wrecked his bridge of boats from Abydos to Sestos. Not content with having the engineers decapitated, he ordered the infliction of 300 lashes upon the strait and the letting down into it of a set of fetters. HerodotUß discr<»dits the story that Xerxes i also sent irons to brand the strait. But the historian does give the "nonHellenic and blasphemous terms" which the scourgers were ordered to use : "Thou bitter water, this is the penalty which our master inflicts upon thee, because thou hast wronged him though ha has never wronged thee. King Xerxes will cross thee, whether than wUt or not ; but thou deservest not sacrifice from any man, because thou art. a treacherous river of salt water."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10
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163LASHES FOR THE SEA. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10
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