Ennosigaios : ‘earth-shaker’, Poseidon; who, by striking the earth with his trident, creates earthquakes, chasms, valleys, springs & river-beds.
... Dercetes and soldiers. IOLAUS Prepare your ambush, men, amid these boulders, But at the signal, leave your rocky lairs With level bristling points and gyre them in. CIREAS O Poseidon Ennosigaios, man-swallower, earth-shaker, I have swabbed thee for eighteen years. I pray thee tot up the price of those swabbings and be not dishonest with me nor miserly. Eighteen by three hundred and sixty-five... altered, Andromeda! ANDROMEDA Diomede, let us go. They go out. Page 407 Scene II In the Temple of Poseidon. Cireas. CIREAS I am done with thee, Poseidon Ennosigaios, man-slayer, ship-breaker, earth-shaker, lord of the waters! Never was faithful service so dirtily rewarded. In all these years not a drachma, not an obolus, not even a false coin for solace. And ...
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