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Of the strangers, yea, and your goodly city for these to ward.’

She spake, and with clamour the folkmote was filled, for good in their eyes

Was the word, and straightway thereafter again did Hypsipylê rise,

And her voice pealed over the multitude, stilling the mingled cries:

‘If in sooth in the sight of you all well-pleasing is this same rede,{700}

Unto the ship straightway a messenger hence will I speed.’

To Iphinoê which waited beside her spake she her hest:

‘Up, Iphinoê, and to yonder man bear this my request,

That he come to our town, even he who is chief of the strangers’ array,

For the word that pleaseth the heart of my people to him would I say.

Yea, and his fellows bid thou to light in friendship down

On our shore, if they will, and to enter undismayed our town.’

She spake, and dismissed the assembly, and homeward she wended her way;

But Iphinoê to the Minyans went; and they bade her say

What was the mind wherewithal she was come, and what her need.{710}

And straightway she told them the words of her message with eager speed: