We mention them chiefly to introduce an ingenious theory of some modern writers, namely, that the Gorgons and Grææ were only personifications of the terrors of the sea, the former denoting the strong billows of the wide open main, and the latter the white-crested waves that dash against the rocks of the coast. […] Cecilia’s Day, thus celebrates the launching of the ship Argo, and the power of the music of Orpheus, whom he calls the Thracian: — “So when the first bold vessel dared the seas,     High on the stern the Thracian raised his strain, While Argo saw her kindred trees     Descend from Pelion to the main.