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With their own eyes over the unknown sea and her trackless ways;—

But forth of the outer haven first their galley they rowed;—

Still Jason’s Path is it named, that mountain-track they trode.

But the earth-born giants the while rushed down from the mountain-side,

And the seaward mouth they blocked of the haven of Chytos the wide{990}

With crags, like men that lie in wait for a wolf in his lair.

Howbeit with them that were younger had Herakles tarried there;

And he leapt to his feet, and against them his back-springing bow did he strain.

One after other he stretched them on earth; and the giants amain

Heaved up huge jagged rocks, and hurled them against their foe.

Yea, for that terrible monster-brood was nurtured, I trow,

Of Hêrê, the bride of Zeus, for a trial of Herakles.

Therewithal came the rest of their fellows, returning to battle with these

Or ever they won the mountain-crest. To the slaughter they fell

Of the Earth-born brood, those heroes: with arrows some did they quell,{1000}

And some on the points of their spears they received, until they had slain