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Rh To his kind host return'd the fertile land,

Euphemus hurried from the prow to take.

To ratify the sign, Saturnian Jove

Thunder'd auspicious from his throne above.

Now while the brazen anchor's might,

Curb of the rapid Argo's flight,

The sailors o'er the ship suspend,

He comes their labours to attend.

Twelve days from ocean's watery bed

On the earth's desert back we led,

Counsell'd by me, the naval frame.

The cheerful mien assuming then

Of him, the most revered of men,

Alone the mighty godhead came;

As when to each arriving guest

The liberal master of the feast

At first his courteous speech applies.

But sweet desire, our homeward way

To urge, forbade a longer stay.

Eurypylus who traced his birth,

To him who girds and shakes the earth,

Observed our eager haste to move:

Then snatching straight the fertile clod,

Pledge of the hospitable god,

To give it to Euphemus strove.

Obedient to the will divine,

The hero leap'd upon the strand,

Receiving with extended hand

The mystic earth his fates assign:

That whelm'd beneath the briny tide,

When evening's shadows gather'd round,

Was from the vessel heard to glide

Far in the watery gulf profound.