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"Having our hilted swords and long-helved spears."

"Then the young heroes with their hands from the sea—"

"Gladly and swiftly hauled out their fleet ship."

"Then they came to Colchis and king Æëtes—"

"They avoided; for they knew he was inhospitable and lawless."

"Now when they had poured libations and deeply drunk, the surging sea—"

"They were minded to traverse on well-built ships."

"The Son of Atreus prayed greatly for them that they all might perish—"

"At no time in the sea: and he opened his mouth and said:"

"Eat, my guests, and drink, and may no one of you return home to his dear country—"

"Distressed; but may you all reach home again unscathed."

When Homer had met him fairly on every point Hesiod said: 579 P P 2