BBC News - Missing US balloonists 'unlikely to have survived'
Lost in the Adriatic sea to Neptune’s Triton like so many of Aeneas brave men in blazing bronze. Juno in all her fury would not have them pass, they are now in the dark waters of charybdis and scylla. A hundred slaughtered bulls to sooth Jupiter’s wife before the journey may have made a difference. Unless some merciful hero throws dirt upon their bones their cries to cross Styx will fall on Charon’s deaf ears.
