The godmother wished the ship at the christening, among other things: "May there always be enough water beneath your keel!"
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Keel
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The sailor plumbed the shallow water with a weighted rope, and the ship's keel did not scrape the rocky sea-bed.
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All hail the speech. We quit this other home, / and leaving here a handful on the shore, / spread sail and scour with hollow keel the foam.
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"O Goddess-born, high auspices are thine, / and heaven's plain omens guide thee o'er the main. / Thus Jove, by lot unfolding his design, / assorts the chances, and the Fates ordain. / This much may I of many things explain, / how best o'er foreign seas to urge thy keel / in safety, and Ausonian ports attain, / the rest from Helenus the Fates conceal, / and Juno's envious power forbids me to reveal."
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