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For a handmaid bare him; and him, though flecked was his hair with grey,

For guide and for guard to his son hath Oineus the old king sent.

So it fell that a beardless lad to the valorous gathering went

Of heroes; yet no man of all that came had the deeds outdone

Of the lad, save Herakles, if that he might but have tarried on

One year mid Aetolia’s sons, till he grew to his strength, I ween.

Yea, and his mother’s brother, a javelin-hurler keen,

And a warrior tried, when foot is set against foot in the fray,{200}

Iphiklus, Thestius’ scion, trod the selfsame way.

Came Palaimonius, whose grandsire was Olenius, and his sire

Lernus in name; but in birth was he child of the Lord of Fire:

Wherefore he halted in either foot; but his bodily frame

And his prowess might no man contemn, for which cause also his name

Was found with the mighty who won for Jason deathless fame.

Came Iphitus, Ornytus’ son, from Phokis withal for the Quest,

Of Naubolus’ line: in the days overpast was Jason his guest.

What time unto Pytho he fared to inquire of the high Gods’ doom