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378 Shun thou their downward rush, lest, unaware,

In wintry tempest thou be rudely caught.]

The roaring sea-wave skirt thou then until

Kisthene's Gorgoneian plains thou reach,

Where dwell the Phorkides, maids grey with eld,

Three, swan-shaped, of one common eye possessed,

One common tooth, whom neither with his beams

The sun beholdeth, nor the nightly moon;

And near them dwell their winged sisters three,

Gorgons, with snaky locks, of men abhorred;

Whom mortal may not look upon and live.

This for thy warning I relate to thee;

List now another spectacle of dread.

The unbarking hounds of Zeus, sharp-mouthed, beware,—

The Griffins; and the Arimaspian host,