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194 That shoots afar, and having their habitations

Under the open sky in wattled cotes

That move on wheels. Go not thou nigh to them,

But ever within sound of the breaking waves

Pass through their land. And on the left of thee

The Chalybes, workers in iron, dwell.

Beware of them, for they are savages,

Who suffer not a stranger to come near.

And thou shalt reach the river Hybristes,

Well named. Cross not, for it is ill to cross,

Until thou come even unto Caucasus,

Highest of mountains, where the foaming river

Blows all its volume from, the summit ridge

That o'ertops all. And that star-neighboured ridge

Thy feet must climb; and, following the road

That runneth south, thou presently shall reach

The Amazonian hosts that loathe the male,

And shall one day remove from thence and found

Themiscyra hard by Thermodon's stream,

Where on the craggy Salmadessian coast

Waves gnash their teeth, the maw of mariners

And step-mother of ships. And they shall lead thee

Upon thy way, and with a right good will.

Then shalt thou come to the Cimmerian Isthmus,

Even at the pass and portals of the sea,

And leaving it behind thee, stout of heart,

Cross o'er the channel of Mæotis' Lake.

For ever famous among men shall be

The story of thy crossing, and the strait

Be called by a new name, the Bosporus,

In memory of thee. Then having left

Europa's soil behind thee thou shalt come