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To the guest-fain Dolian men. Then stepped they ashore in the gloom

Of the night; and unto this day is it called the Rock of Doom

Round which the hawsers of Argo in blind haste now did they pass;{1020}

Neither did any man deem that the selfsame island it was;

Nor yet were the Dolians ware that again in the night to their coast

The heroes were come, but haply they weened that a Makrian host

Of Pelasgian men for war had sailed to their land overseas:

Wherefore their armour they donned, and uplifted their hands against these.

And with onset of spears and with clashing of shields met they in the strife,

Like to the vehement blast of flame which hath leapt into life

Mid the copses dry, and the red tongues climb: and the battle-din then

Fearful and furious fell in the midst of the Dolian men.

Nor may Kyzikus now overleap his weird, and aback from the war{1030}

Win home to the bower of love and the arms of his bride any more.

But, even as he turned on him, full on the king leapt Aison’s son,

And stabbed in the midst of his breast, and shattered was all the bone