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THE ARGONAUTICA, BOOK IV


“Listen, friends; as I lay in my grief, three
goddesses girded with goat-skins from the neck
downwards round the back and waist, like maidens,
stood over my head nigh at hand; and _ they
uncovered me, drawing my cloak away with light
hand, and they bade me rise up myself and go and
rouse you, and pay to our mother a_bounteous
recompense for all her travail when she bare us so
long in her womb, when Amphitrite shall have loosed
Poseidon’s swift-wheeled car. But I cannot fully
understand concerning this divine message. They
said indeed that they were heroines, Libya’s warders
and daughters; and all the toils that we endured
aforetime by land and sea, all these they declared
that they knew full well. Then I saw them no
more in their place, but a mist or cloud came
between and hid them from my sight.”

Thus he spake, and all marvelled as they heard.
