And Fhaethon' held his shapely chariot with the fleet
ateeda nigh for him to mount ; so he went up thereon and
took the reina in hia h&nda. Forth from the town he
draTe along the broad high-road, to take bia station in the
lists, and with him a countless throng hasted forth. Like
as when Poseidon, mounted on hia car, goeth to the
Isthmian games, or to Teen&rus,' or cometh in his might to
the waters of Lema * or through the groTe of Hyantian
Onchestus, and with his steeds he cometh even to OaJaurea,
and the Heemonian rock, or to wooded Genestum ; such
was .^tes, captain of the Colchians, for to behold.
Meantime Jason, by the advice of Medea, soaked the

' araBiov, " tluidiag fut, firm, anjielding," so m spithet of ufffiivii,
or alone (cf^ i. 200) it mean* " close, hftnd-to-luuid fight," Lat. pogii*

' Tbe other name of Abiyrtm, boh of Metes.
* TnoKTut, s promoDtoTy of I«cx>ni>, sacred Co P<M«idon.
* Lenift, ■ fonntwn in AxgM. "Yavrlov, i.e. Bceoti&n. The HjentM
were k Bosatiu nee, and Onchestus it ft city in Bceotia. Calanrea i*
•n iiluid near TncBni. Hsmonia, i.t. Tbesaaly ; Findar nsea the
epithet DirpdSiit of Bueidon. Oeneatui, a promoDlory of EabtBa.
All the place* bare mentioned were laored to the wonhip of Foteidon,
and aavenl had temples in the god's honour.
