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 Between the continents, still turning thee

To the untrodden fiery-gazing east,

[Keep that straight course. And then first wilt thou come

Against the northern blasts; where take good heed

Of the boisterous gusts, lest suddenly they snatch thee

And in their stormy whirlwinds hurl thee on.]

Crossing the sea's loud surges, until next

Cisthene's Gorgoneian plain thou reach,

Where dwell the Phorkides, three hoary maids,

Swan-visaged, of one common eye possessed,

And single-toothed; whom never does the sun

Nor nightly moon look down on with its rays.

And near at hand their three winged sisters dwell,

The snake-tressed Gorgons, hateful to mankind:

Whom never mortal looks upon and lives.

Such then the caution which I give thee. Now

Hear of another grewsome sight; for ware

The griffins, Zeus's sharp-beaked silent hounds,

And the one-eyed host, the horsemen Arimaspi

Who dwell around the river running gold,

The stream of Pluto. Go not near to these.