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Beached they the ship, for against them the veering breeze had turned.

And they honoured the dead, and victims of sheep in the gloaming they burned,

While the sea-surge stormily tossed. Two days to and fro on the shore

They loitered, but ran on the third their galley asea once more;

And the broad sail spread they on high, and the keel from the strand shot away:{590}

Men call it ‘The Launching of Argo’—Aphetai—unto this day.

Onward they ran, ever onward: they left Meliboia behind;

They caught but a glimpse of the foam-flecked beach of the stormy wind:

And with dawning on Homolê looked they, and lo, it was looming anigh;

Broad-couched on the breast of the waters it lay as they passed it by.

Thereafter full soon by the outfall of Amyrus’ flood must they fly.

Eurymenê then, and the surf-tormented gorges they spied

Of Olympus’ and Ossa’s seaward face: wind-wafted they ride

By the slopes of Pallênê; beyond Kanastra’s foreland-height

They passed, running lightly before the breath of the breeze in the night.{600}