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320 From the very temples; and passing over

The star-neighbored summits, 't is necessary to go

The southern way, where thou wilt come to the man-hating

Army of the Amazons, who Themiscyra one day

Will inhabit, by the Thermedon, where 's

Salmydessia, rough jaw of the sea,

Inhospitable to sailors, stepmother of ships;

They will conduct thee on thy way, and very cheerfully.

And to the Cimmerian isthmus thou wilt come,

Just on the narrow portals of a lake, which leaving

It behooves thee with stout heart to pass the Mœotic straits;

And there will be to mortals ever a great fame

Of thy passage, and Bosphorus from thy name

'T will be called. And leaving Europe's plain

The continent of Asia thou wilt reach.—Seemeth to thee, forsooth,

The tyrant of the gods in everything to be

Thus violent? For he a god, with this mortal

Wishing to unite, drove her to these wanderings.

A bitter wooer didst thou find, O virgin,

For thy marriage. For the words you now have heard

Think not yet to be the prelude. Io. Ah! me! me! alas! alas!