Circe: The Famous Sorceress
by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition
CIRCE (Gr. Κ?ρκη), in Greek legend, a famous sorceress, the daughter of Helios and the ocean nymph Perse. Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea on the coast of Italy. She was able by means of drugs and incantations to change human beings into the forms of wolves or lions, and with these beings her palace was surrounded. Here she was found by Odysseus and his companions; the latter she changed into swine, but the hero, protected by the herb moly (q.v.), which he had received from Hermes, not only forced her to restore them to their original shape, but also gained her love. For a year he relinquished himself to her endearments, and when he determined to leave, she instructed him how to sail to the land of shades which lay on the verge of the ocean stream, in order to learn his fate from the prophet Teiresias. Upon his return she also gave him directions for avoiding the dangers of the journey home (Homer,Odyssey, x.-xii.; Hyginus, Fab. 125). The Roman poets associated her with the most ancient traditions of Latium, and assigned her a home on the promontory of Circei (Virgil, Aeneid, vii. 10). The metamorphoses of Scylla and of Picus, king of the Ausonians, by Circe, are narrated in Ovid (Metamorphoses, xiv.).
"Kichwa cha habari: ""The Famous Sorceress"" na Encyclopaedia Britannica, toleo la 11 CIRCE (Gr." Kilikua ni jina la mchawi wa kale wa Ugiriki, binti ya Helios na Perse. Baada ya kumuua mume wake, mfalme wa Kolkidi, alifukuzwa na raia wake na kuhamishwa na baba yake kwenye kisiwa cha Aeaea kwenye pwani ya Italia. Kwa kutumia dawa za kulevya na uchawi aliweza kugeuza wanadamu kuwa mbwa-mwitu au simba, na kwa sababu hiyo, jumba lake la kifalme lilizungukwa na wanyama hao. Odysseus na wenzake walimkuta huko, na baadaye akajifanya nguruwe, lakini shujaa huyo, akiwa amelindwa na mimea ya moly (q.v. "Hakika, kwa sababu ya ""mfano"" wake, Hermes alilazimika kuwarudisha kwa umbo lao la awali, na pia alipata upendo wake." Kwa mwaka mmoja alijitoa kwa mapenzi yake, na alipokuwa ameamua kuondoka, alimwambia jinsi ya kusafiri kwa meli hadi nchi ya vivuli iliyokuwa kwenye ukingo wa mto wa bahari, ili kujifunza hatima yake kutoka kwa nabii Tiresias. Baada ya kurudi kwake pia alimpa mwelekeo wa kuepuka hatari za safari ya nyumbani (Homer, Odyssey, x.-xii. ; Hyginus, Fab. 125) "Washairi wa Kiroma walimshirikisha na mapokeo ya kale zaidi ya Latium, na kumpa nyumba kwenye mwamba wa Circei (Virgil, Aeneid, vii." 10) Metamorphoses ya Scylla na ya Picus, mfalme wa Ausonians, na Circe, ni alisimulia katika Ovid (Metamorphoses, xiv. )