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 A way that goeth South, and thou shalt reach

The woman-people arm'd, the Amazons,

That loathe the face of men,—those that one day

Shall overspread Themiskyra, about

Thermodon, where is Salmydessos, thrust

Seaward, a rugged jaw, to mariners

A wicked host, to ships a stepmother:—

These of good will shall bear thee on thy way.

And journeying thou shalt find the neck men call

Kimmerian, at the entry of the Pool,

The narrow gates: there then make stout thy reins

Even to take leave of land and pass clean over

The strait Meotic. Know of that thy passage

Shall be great speech among all peoples of men

For ever; and the place shall get a name

Memorial, Bosporos. So shalt thou tread

Europe no more, but thence the continent

Asia.

Look now, and tell me whether to you

He seems, this tyrant of the gods, a nature