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To hie them aboard, and to range the oars in order due.

And a weird dread cry from the haven of Pagasae rang to them; yea,

From Pelian Argo herself came a voice, bidding hasten away:

For within her a beam divine had been laid, which Athênê brought

From the oak Dodonaean, and into the midst of her stem was it wrought.

So the heroes went up to the thwarts, and twain after twain arow,

Even as fell the places by lot but a little ago,

Orderly ranged sat down, and by each was his harness of fight.{530}

On the midmost Ankaius, and next him Herakles’ giant might

Sat, and beside him he laid his club; and the keel of the ship

Under his massy tread plunged deep. And now did they slip

The hawsers, and poured on the sea the wine. Tear-dimmed that day

Were Jason’s eyes, from the fatherland-home as he turned them away.

And these—as the youths that in Pytho begin unto Phœbus the dance,

In Ortygia, or there where Ismenus’ ripples in sunlight glance,

Hand in hand to the notes of the lyre his altar around