"Next by the sacred hill their oars impel Firm Argo, where the Mossyncecians dwell. In towers they live, of solid timber framed, Mossynes called, and thence the nation named: Of manners strange; for they with care conceal Those deeds which others openly reveal; And actions, that in secret should be done, Perform in public and before the sun: For, like the monsters of the bristly drove, In public they perform the feats of love. Exalted in his tower that mates the sky, The monarch here dispenses law from high: But if his judgment err, this rigid state Condemns their chief, and starving is his fate."
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