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And straightway rejoiced the city with dance and with festival,

And was filled with sacrifice-steam to the Deathless: but most of all

Honoured they Hêrê’s glorious son, and atonement’s price

To the Cyprian Queen they paid with song and with sacrifice.{860}

And ever from day unto day did the heroes their sailing forbear,

Loth to depart; and long had they tarried loitering there,

But Herakles gathered his comrades, and drew from the women apart,

And with words of upbraiding he spake, and rebuked them indignant of heart:

‘What, sirs, is it blood of kindred spilt that maketh us roam

From our land?—or came ye, because that ye found no brides at home,

Hitherward, scorning the maidens of Greece? Doth it please you to toil

Here dwelling, and driving the plough through the soft smooth Lemnian soil?

Good sooth, but little renown shall we win of our tarrying

Here long time with the stranger women! No God will bring{870}

That Fleece unto us, nor wrest from its warder, for our request!

Forth let us go each man to his place—him leave ye to rest