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Came Kanthus forth of Eubœa: it was not fate-decreed

That again he should turn and behold Kerinthus, for doomed was he,

Even he and Mopsus withal, the wise in augury,{80}

To perish in Libya, lost in the waste of a wide sand-sea.

Sooth, never was mischief removed too far to be found of the doomed;

Forasmuch as in Libya’s desert were even these entombed,

As far from the Kolchian land as the space outstretched between

The sun’s uprising, and where the setting thereof is seen.

And Klytius and Iphitus gathered to that great mustering,

Oichalia’s warders, children of Eurytus, ruthless king,

Who received of Far-smiter a bow; but he had no profit thereof,

For in archery-skill with the giver’s self he wantonly strove.

And with these fared Aiakus’ sons, yet not from the selfsame place,{90}

Nor together, for far had they wandered away from the home of their race,

Aegina, what time in their folly the blood of their brother they spilt,

Even Phokus: to Salamis Telamon bare his burden of guilt:

But Peleus roved till in Phthia the halls of the outcast he built.