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Wheeling its flight, it uttered the thing that my lips have said.

For swayed by her power be the winds, and the sea, and the earth below,

Yea also Olympus crowned with the everlasting snow.

And to her, when to heaven from her hills she ascendeth, doth Zeus give place,{1100}

Even Kronos’ son himself, and all the Deathless Race

Of the Blessèd in reverence bow before her awful face.’

So spake he: to hear that word the heart of Jason leapt.

Gladsome he sprang from his couch, and his comrades, there as they slept,

Did he waken in haste; and he told, as they gathered around him to hear,

The prophecy spoken of Mopsus Ampykus’ son, the seer.

Then steers from the byre the young men drave, and with speed they pressed

Up the steep hill-path with the beasts, till they won to the mountain’s crest.

From the Rock of Doom did others the hawsers of Argo slip:

To the Thracian haven they rowed, and leapt to the strand; and the ship{1110}

There guarded they left, for there tarried behind of their fellows a few.