moves at the breath of the blustering north wind. These (ll. 1326-1331) He spake, and with a plunge wrapped things were thus to be accomplished in after times. But him about with the restless wave; and round him the to them appeared Glaucus from the depths of the sea, dark water foamed in seething eddies and dashed the wise interpreter of divine Nereus, and raising aloft against the hollow ship as it moved through the sea.
his shaggy head and chest from his waist below, with And the heroes rejoiced, and Telamon son of Aeacus sturdy hand he seized the ship’s keel, and then cried to came in haste to Jason, and grasping his hand in his the eager crew:
own embraced him with these words: (ll. 1315-1325) “Why against the counsel of mighty (ll. 1332-1335) “Son of Aeson, be not wroth with me, Zeus do ye purpose to lead bold Heracles to the city of if in my folly I have erred, for grief wrought upon me Aeetes? At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent to utter a word arrogant and intolerable. But let me Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell give my fault to the winds and let our hearts be joined with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment as before.”
a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him. Likewise it is destined for Polyphemus to found (ll. 1336-1343) Him the son of Aeson with prudence a glorious city at the mouth of Cius among the Mysians addressed: “Good friend, assuredly with an evil word and to fill up the measure of his fate in the vast land of didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the Chalybes. But a goddess-nymph through love has the wronger of a kindly man. But not for long will I made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two nurse bitter wrath, though indeed before I was grieved.
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comrade. And I were fain thou wouldst even cham-bore the ship on, blowing fresh and strong; but when pion me against another man if a like thing should ever dawn rose there was not even a breath of air. And they befall me.”
marked a beach jutting forth from a bend of the coast, very broad to behold, and by dint of rowing came to (ll. 1344-1357) He spake, and they sat down, united as land at sunrise.
of old. But of those two, by the counsel of Zeus, one, Polyphemus son of Eilatus, was destined to found and build a city among the Mysians bearing the river’s BOOK II
name, and the other, Heracles, to return and toil at the labours of Eurystheus. And he threatened to lay waste (ll. 1-10) Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the Mysian land at once, should they not discover for the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a him the doom of Hylas, whether living or dead. And nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon for him they gave pledges choosing out the noblest Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men; for even sons of the people and took an oath that they would for strangers he laid down an insulting ordinance, that never cease from their labour of search. Therefore to none should depart till they had made trial of him in this day the people of Cius enquire for Hylas the son boxing; and he had slain many of the neighbours. And of Theiodamas, and take thought for the well-built at that time too he went down to the ship and in his Trachis. For there did Heracles settle the youths whom insolence scorned to ask them the occasion of their they sent from Cius as pledges.
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(ll. 11-18) “Listen, ye wanderers by sea, to what it be-him round, and, though pressed by the throng, he reeks fits you to know. It is the rule that no stranger who no more of them, but keeps his eyes fixed, singling out comes to the Bebrycians should depart till he has raised that man only who struck him first and slew him not.
his hands in battle against mine. Wherefore select your Hereupon the son of Tyndareus laid aside his mantle, bravest warrior from the host and set him here on the closely-woven, delicately-wrought, which one of the spot to contend with me in boxing. But if ye pay no Lemnian maidens had given him as a pledge of hospi-heed and trample my decrees under foot, assuredly to tality; and the king threw down his dark cloak of double your sorrow will stern necessity come upon you.
fold with its clasps and the knotted crook of mountain olive which he carried. Then straightway they looked (ll. 19-21) Thus he spake in his pride, but fierce anger and chose close by a spot that pleased them and bade seized them when they heard it, and the challenge their comrades sit upon the sand in two lines; nor were smote Polydeuces most of all. And quickly he stood they alike to behold in form or in stature. The one forth his comrades’ champion, and cried: seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of Earth herself, such as she brought forth aforetime, (ll. 22-24) “Hold now, and display not to us thy brutal vio-in her wrath against Zeus; but the other, the son of lence, whoever thou art; for we will obey thy rules, as thou Tyndareus, was like a star of heaven, whose beams are sayest. Willingly now do I myself undertake to meet thee.” fairest as it shines through the nightly sky at eventide.
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before and were not altogether numbed by toil and be of good courage. And to Amycus came Aretus and rowing. But Amycus on his sidemade no trial; but stand-Ornytus, but little they knew, poor fools, that they had ing apart in silence he kept his eyes upon his foe, and bound them for the last time on their champion, a vic-his spirit surged within him all eager to dash the life-tim of evil fate.
blood from his breast. And between them Lyeoreus, the henchman of Amycus, placed at their feet on each (ll. 67-97) Now when they stood apart and were ready side two pairs of gauntlets made of raw hide, dry, ex-with their gauntlets, straightway in front of their faces ceeding tough. And the king addressed the hero with they raised their heavy hands and matched their might arrogant words:
in deadly strife. Hereupon the Bebrycian king even as a fierce wave of the sea rises in a crest against a swift (ll. 55-59) “Whichever of these thou wilt, without cast-ship, but she by the skill of the crafty pilot just escapes ing lots, I grant thee freely, that thou mayst not blame the shock when the billow is eager to break over the me hereafter. Bind them about thy hands; thou shalt bulwark—so he followed up the son of Tyndareus, try-learn and tell another how skilled I am to carve the ing to daunt him, and gave him no respite. But the dry oxhides and to spatter men’s cheeks with blood.” hero, ever unwounded, by his skill baffled the rush of his foe, and he quickly noted the brutal play of his fists (ll. 60-66) Thus he spake; but the other gave back no to see where he was invincible in strength, and where taunt in answer, but with a light smile readily took up inferior, and stood unceasingly and returned blow for the gauntlets that lay at his feet; and to him came Cas-blow. And as when shipwrights with their hammers tor and mighty Talaus, son of Bias, and they quickly smite ships’ timbers to meet the sharp clamps, fixing bound the gauntlets about his hands, often bidding him layer upon layer; and the blows resound one after an-47
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other; so cheeks and jaws crashed on both sides, and a sheath. First Castor struck upon the head a man as he huge clattering of teeth arose, nor did they cease ever rushed at him: and it was cleft in twain and fell on each from striking their blows until laboured gasping over-side upon his shoulders. And Polydeuces slew huge came both. And standing a little apart they wiped from Itymoneus and Mimas. The one, with a sudden leap, their foreheads sweat in abundance, wearily panting he smote beneath the breast with his swift foot and for breath. Then back they rushed together again, as threw him in the dust; and as the other drew near he two bulls fight in furious rivalry for a grazing heifer.
struck him with his right hand above the left eyebrow, Next Amycus rising on tiptoe, like one who slays an and tore away his eyelid and the eyeball was left bare.
ox, sprung to his full height and swung his heavy hand But Oreides, insolent henchman of Amycus, wounded down upon his rival; but the hero swerved aside from Talaus son of Bias in the side, but did not slay him, but the rush, turning his head, and just received the arm only grazing the skin the bronze sped under his belt on his shoulder; and coming near and slipping his knee and touched not the flesh. Likewise Aretus with well-past the king’s, with a rush he struck him above the seasoned club smote Iphitus, the steadfast son of ear, and broke the bones inside, and the king in agony Eurytus, not yet destined to an evil death; assuredly fell upon his knees; and the Minyan heroes shouted soon was he himself to be slain by the sword of Clytius.
for joy; and his life was poured forth all at once.
Then Ancaeus, the dauntless son of Lycurgus, quickly seized his huge axe, and in his left hand holding a bear’s (ll. 98-144) Nor were the Bebrycians reckless of their dark hide, plunged into the midst of the Bebrycians king; but all together took up rough clubs and spears with furious onset; and with him charged the sons of and rushed straight on Polydeuces. But in front of him Aeacus, and with them started warlike Jason. And as stood his comrades, their keen swords drawn from the when amid the folds grey wolves rush down on a 48
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winter’s day and scare countless sheep, unmarked by in their cowardice if haply some god had brought the keen-scented dogs and the shepherds too, and they Heracles hither. Assuredly, if he had been here, no seek what first to attack and carry off; often glaring trial would there have been of fists, I ween, but when around, but the sheep are just huddled together and the king drew near to proclaim his rules, the club would trample on one another; so the heroes grievously scared have made him forget his pride and the rules to boot.
the arrogant Bebrycians. And as shepherds or beekeep-Yea, we left him uncared for on the strand and we sailed ers smoke out a huge swarm of bees in a rock, and oversea; and full well each one of us shall know our they meanwhile, pent up in their hive, murmur with baneful folly, now that he is far away.” droning hum, till, stupefied by the murky smoke, they fly forth far from the rock; so they stayed steadfast no (ll. 154-163) Thus he spake, but all these things had longer, but scattered themselves inland through been wrought by the counsels of Zeus. Then they re-Bebrycia, proclaiming the death of Amycus; fools, not mained there through the night and tended the hurts of to perceive that another woe all unforeseen was hard the wounded men, and offered sacrifice to the immor-upon them. For at that hour their vineyards and vil-tals, and made ready a mighty meal; and sleep fell upon lages were being ravaged by the hostile spear of Lycus no man beside the bowl and the blazing sacrifice. They and the Mariandyni, now that their king was gone. For wreathed their fair brows with the bay that grew by the they were ever at strife about the ironbearing land. And shore, whereto their hawsers were bound, and chanted now the foe was destroying their steadings and farms, a song to the lyre of Orpheus in sweet harmony; and and now the heroes from all sides were driving off their the windless shore was charmed by their song; and they countless sheep, and one spake among his fellows thus: celebrated the Therapnaean son of Zeus.*
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(ll. 164-177) But when the sun rising from far lands lighted upon him a lingering old age, and took from his eyes up the dewy hills and wakened the shepherds, then they the pleasant light, and suffered him not to have joy of loosed their hawsers from the stem of the baytree and the dainties untold that the dwellers around ever put on board all the spoil they had need to take; and brought to his house, when they came to enquire the with a favouring wind they steered through the eddying will of heaven. But on a sudden, swooping through the Bosporus. Hereupon a wave like a steep mountain rose clouds, the Harpies with their crooked beaks incessantly aloft in front as though rushing upon them, ever up-snatched the food away from his mouth and hands.
heaved above the clouds; nor would you say that they And at times not a morsel of food was left, at others could escape grim death, for in its fury it hangs over the but a little, in order that he might live and be tormented.
middle of the ship, like a cloud, yet it sinks away into And they poured forth over all a loathsome stench; calm if it meets with a skilful helmsman. So they by the and no one dared not merely to carry food to his mouth steering-craft of Tiphys escaped, unhurt but sore dis-but even to stand at a distance; so foully reeked the mayed. And on the next day they fastened the hawsers remnants of the meal. But straightway when he heard to the coast opposite the Bithynian land.
the voice and the tramp of the band he knew that they were the men passing by, at whose coming Zeus’ oracle (ll. 178-208) There Phineus, son of Agenor, had his had declared to him that he should have joy of his home by the sea, Phineus who above all men endured food. And he rose from his couch, like a lifeless dream, most bitter woes because of the gift of prophecy which bowed over his staff, and crept to the door on his with-Leto’s son had granted him aforetime. And he rever-ered feet, feeling the walls; and as he moved, his limbs enced not a whit even Zeus himself, for he foretold trembled for weakness and age; and his parched skin unerringly to men his sacred will. Wherefore Zeus sent was caked with dirt, and naught but the skill held his 50
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bones together. And he came forth from the hall with the end a weary old age; but besides my other woes a wearied knees and sat on the threshold of the court-woe hangs over me the bitterest of all. The Harpies, yard; and a dark stupor covered him, and it seemed swooping down from some unseen den of destruction, that the earth reeled round beneath his feet, and he lay ever snatch the food from my mouth. And I have no in a strengthless trance, speechless. But when they saw device to aid me. But it were easier, when I long for a him they gathered round and marvelled. And he at meal, to escape my own thoughts than them, so swiftly last drew laboured breath from the depths of his chest do they fly through the air. But if haply they do leave and spoke among them with prophetic utterance: me a morsel of food it reeks of decay and the stench is unendurable, nor could any mortal bear to draw near (ll. 209-239) “Listen, bravest of all the Hellenes, if it even for a moment, no, not if his heart were wrought be truly ye, whom by a king’s ruthless command Jason of adamant. But necessity, bitter and insatiate, comis leading on the ship Argo in quest of the fleece. It is pels me to abide and abiding to put food in my cursed ye truly. Even yet my soul by its divination knows ev-belly. These pests, the oracle declares, the sons of Boreas erything. Thanks I render to thee, O king, son of Leto, shall restrain. And no strangers are they that shall ward plunged in bitter affliction though I be. I beseech you them off if indeed I am Phineus who was once renowned by Zeus the god of suppliants, the sternest foe to sinful among men for wealth and the gift of prophecy, and if I men, and for the sake of Phoebus and Hera herself, am the son of my father Agenor; and, when I ruled under whose especial care ye have come hither, help among the Thracians, by my bridal gifts I brought home me, save an ill-fated man from misery, and depart not their sister Cleopatra to be my wife.” uncaring and leaving me thus as ye see. For not only has the Fury set her foot on my eyes and I drag on to (ll. 240-243) So spake Agenor’s son; and deep sorrow 51
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seized each of the heroes, and especially the two sons (ll. 256-261) “Be silent, store not up such thoughts in of Boreas. And brushing away a tear they drew nigh, thy heart, my child. Let the son of Leto be my witness, and Zetes spake as follows, taking in his own the hand he who of his gracious will taught me the lore of proph-of the grief-worn sire:
ecy, and be witness the ill-starred doom which possesses me and this dark cloud upon my eyes, and the (ll. 244-253) “Unhappy one, none other of men is more gods of the underworld—and may their curse be upon wretched than thou, methinks. Why upon thee is laid me if I die perjured thus—no wrath from heaven will the burden of so many sorrows? Hast thou with bane-fall upon you two for your help to me.” ful folly sinned against the gods through thy skill in prophecy? For this are they greatly wroth with thee?
(ll. 262-287) Then were those two eager to help him Yet our spirit is dismayed within us for all our desire to because of the oath. And quickly the younger heroes aid thee, if indeed the god has granted this privilege to prepared a feast for the aged man, a last prey for the us two. For plain to discern to men of earth are the Harpies; and both stood near him, to smite with the reproofs of the immortals. And we will never check sword those pests when they swooped down. Scarcely the Harpies when they come, for all our desire, until had the aged man touched the food when they forth-thou hast sworn that for this we shall not lose the favour with, like bitter blasts or flashes of lightning, suddenly of heaven.”
darted from the clouds, and swooped down with a yell, fiercely craving for food; and the heroes beheld them (ll. 254-255) Thus he spake; and towards him the aged and shouted in the midst of their onrush; but they at the sire opened his sightless eyes, and lifted them up and cry devoured everything and sped away over the sea replied with these words:
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them the two sons of Boreas raising their swords rushed (ll. 291-300) With these words she took an oath by the in pursuit. For Zeus imparted to them tireless strength; waters of Styx, which to all the gods is most dread and but without Zeus they could not have followed, for the most awful, that the Harpies would never thereafter Harpies used ever to outstrip the blasts of the west wind again approach the home of Phineus, son of Agenor, when they came to Phineus and when they left him.
for so it was fated. And the heroes yielding to the oath, And as when, upon the mountain-side, hounds, cun-turned back their flight to the ship. And on account of ning in the chase, run in the track of horned goats or this men call them the Islands of Turning though deer, and as they strain a little behind gnash their teeth aforetime they called them the Floating Islands. And upon the edge of their jaws in vain; so Zetes and Calais the Harpies and Iris parted. They entered their den in rushing very near just grazed the Harpies in vain with Minoan Crete; but she sped up to Olympus, soaring their finger-tips. And assuredly they would have torn aloft on her swift wings.
them to pieces, despite heaven’s will, when they had overtaken them far off at the Floating Islands, had not (ll. 301-310) Meanwhile the chiefs carefully cleansed swift Iris seen them and leapt down from the sky from the old man’s squalid skin and with due selection sac-heaven above, and cheeked them with these words: rificed sheep which they had borne away from the spoil of Amycus. And when they had laid a huge supper in (ll. 288-290) “It is not lawful, O sons of Boreas, to the hall, they sat down and feasted, and with them strike with your swords the Harpies, the hounds of feasted Phineus ravenously, delighting his soul, as in a mighty Zeus; but I myself will give you a pledge, that dream. And there, when they had taken their fill of hereafter they shall not draw near to Phineus.” food and drink, they kept awake all night waiting for the sons of Boreas. And the aged sire himself sat in the 53
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midst, near the hearth, telling of the end of their voy-on following the guidance of youth. First entrust the age and the completion of their journey: attempt to a dove when ye have sent her forth from the ship. And if she escapes safe with her wings be-
(ll. 311-315) “Listen then. Not everything is it lawful tween the rocks to the open sea, then no more do ye for you to know clearly; but whatever is heaven’s will, refrain from the path, but grip your oars well in your I will not hide. I was infatuated aforetime, when in my hands and cleave the sea’s narrow strait, for the light folly I declared the will of Zeus in order and to the of safety will be not so much in prayer as in strength of end. For he himself wishes to deliver to men the utter-hands. Wherefore let all else go and labour boldly with ances of the prophetic art incomplete, in order that might and main, but ere then implore the gods as ye they may still have some need to know the will of heaven.
will, I forbid you not. But if she flies onward and perishes midway, then do ye turn back; for it is better to (ll. 316-340) “First of all, after leaving me, ye will see yield to the immortals. For ye could not escape an evil the twin Cyanean rocks where the two seas meet. No doom from the rocks, not even if Argo were of iron.
one, I ween, has won his escape between them. For they are not firmly fixed with roots beneath, but con-
(ll. 341-359) “O hapless ones, dare not to transgress stantly clash against one another to one point, and my divine warning, even though ye think that I am above a huge mass of salt water rises in a crest, boiling thrice as much hated by the sons of heaven as I am, up, and loudly dashes upon the hard beach. Where-and even more than thrice; dare not to sail further with fore now obey my counsel, if indeed with prudent mind your ship in despite of the omen. And as these things and reverencing the blessed gods ye pursue your way; will fall, so shall they fall. But if ye shun the clashing and perish not foolishly by a self-sought death, or rush rocks and come scatheless inside Pontus, straightway 54
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keep the land of the Bithynians on your right and sail pour forth with a terrible roar; and after it his flowing on, and beware of the breakers, until ye round the swift near, but smaller in stream, rolls into the sea with white river Rhebas and the black beach, and reach the eddies. Onward from thence the bend of a huge and harbour of the Isle of Thynias. Thence ye must turn towering cape reaches out from the land, next back a little space through the sea and beach your ship Thermodon at its mouth flows into a quiet bay at the on the land of the Mariandyni lying opposite. Here is Themiscyreian headland, after wandering through a a downward path to the abode of Hades, and the head-broad continent. And here is the plain of Doeas, and land of Acherusia stretches aloft, and eddying Acheron near are the three cities of the Amazons, and after them cleaves its way at the bottom, even through the head-the Chalybes, most wretched of men, possess a soil land, and sends its waters forth from a huge ravine.
rugged and unyielding sons of toil, they busy them-And near it ye will sail past many hills of the selves with working iron. And near them dwell the Paphlagonians, over whom at the first Eneteian Pelops Tibareni, rich in sheep, beyond the Genetaean head-reigned, and of his blood they boast themselves to be.
land of Zeus, lord of hospitality. And bordering on it the Mossynoeci next in order inhabit the well-wooded (ll. 360-406) “Now there is a headland opposite Helice mainland and the parts beneath the mountains, who the Bear, steep on all sides, and they call it Carambis, have built in towers made from trees their wooden about whose crests the blasts of the north wind are homes and well-fitted chambers, which they call sundered. So high in the air does it rise turned towards Mossynes, and the people themselves take their name the sea. And when ye have rounded it broad Aegialus from them. After passing them ye must beach your stretches before you; and at the end of broad Aegialus, ship upon a smooth island, when ye have driven away at a jutting point of coast, the waters of the river Halys with all manner of skill the ravening birds, which in 55
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countless numbers haunt the desert island. In it the fleece that is spread upon the top of an oak; neither by Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a day nor by night does sweet sleep subdue his restless stone temple of Ares what time they went forth to war.
eyes.”
Now here an unspeakable help will come to you from the bitter sea; wherefore with kindly intent I bid you (ll. 408-410) Thus he spake, and straightway fear seized stay. But what need is there that I should sin yet again them as they heard. And for a long while they were declaring everything to the end by my prophetic art?
struck with silence; till at last the hero, son of Aeson, And beyond the island and opposite mainland dwell spake, sore dismayed at their evil plight: the Philyres: and above the Philyres are the Macrones, and after them the vast tribes of the Becheiri. And next (ll. 411-418) “O aged sire, now hast thou come to the in order to them dwell the Sapeires, and the Byzeres end of the toils of our sea-journeying and hast told us have the lands adjoining to them, and beyond them at the token, trusting to which we shall make our way to last live the warlike Colchians themselves. But speed Pontus through the hateful rocks; but whether, when on in your ship, till ye touch the inmost bourne of the we have escaped them, we shall have a return back sea. And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the again to Hellas, this too would we gladly learn from Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean thee. What shall I do, how shall I go over again such a plain, eddying Phasis rolls his broad stream to the sea.
long path through the sea, unskilled as I am, with un-Guide your ship to the mouth of that river and ye shall skilled comrades? And Colchian Aea lies at the edge behold the towers of Cytaean Aeetes and the shady of Pontus and of the world.”
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(ll. 438-442) Assuredly there was then, Phineus, some caped through the deadly rocks, fear not; for a deity god who cared for thy bitter woe, and brought us hither will be the guide from Aea by another track; and to from afar, that the sons of Boreas might aid thee; and Aea there will be guides enough. But, my friends, take if too he should bring sight to thine eyes, verily I should thought of the artful aid of the Cyprian goddess. For rejoice, methinks, as much as if I were on my home-on her depends the glorious issue of your venture. And ward way.”
further than this ask me not.” (ll. 443-447) Thus he spake, but Phineus replied to (ll. 426-437) Thus spake Agenor’s son, and close at him with downcast look: “Son of Aeson, that is past hand the twin sons of Thracian Boreas came darting recall, nor is there any remedy hereafter, for blasted from the sky and set their swift feet upon the thresh-are my sightless eyes. But instead of that, may the god old; and the heroes rose up from their seats when they grant me death at once, and after death I shall take my saw them present. And Zetes, still drawing hard breath share in perfect bliss.”
after his toil, spake among the eager listeners, telling them how far they had driven the Harpies and how his (ll. 448-467) Then they two returned answering speech, prevented their slaying them, and how the goddess of each to other, and soon in the midst of their converse her grace gave them pledges, and how those others in early dawn appeared; and round Phineus were gath-fear plunged into the vast cave of the Dictaean cliff.
ered the neighbours who used to come thither aforetime Then in the mansion all their comrades were joyful at day by day and constantly bring a portion of their food.
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from their woes by his prophetic art; wherefore they the sad penalty of his father’s sin. For he when alone visited and tended him. And with them came Paraebius, on the mountains, felling trees, once slighted the prayers who was dearest to him, and gladly did he perceive of a Hamadryad, who wept and sought to soften him these strangers in the house. For long ere now the seer with plaintive words, not to cut down the stump of an himself had said that a band of chieftains, faring from oak tree coeval with herself, wherein for a long time Hellas to the city of Aceres, would make fast their haw-she had lived continually; but he in the arrogance of sers to the Thynian land, and by Zeus’ will would check youth recklessly cut it down. So to him the nymph tho approach of the Harpies. The rest the old man thereafter made her death a curse, to him and to his pleased with words of wisdom and let them go; children. I indeed knew of the sin