The Tale of the Argonauts Author:Apollonius General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: J. M. Dent and co. Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to... more » Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Wherefore let all else be, and toil ye with might and main Boldly : but ere then pray as ye list; I say not nay. '. But and if the death-trap clutch in the midst the dove, and slay, Then sail ye aback ; for better by far it is that ye Should yield to the Deathless. The evil fate should ye nowise flee Of the Rocks -- no, not though fashioned of iron your Argo 34 should be. O wretches, dare not to transgress the warning my tongue hath given, Though thrice so much ye account me abhorred of the Dwellers in Heaven -- Yea, though it were more than thrice -- as I am by my grievous sin, Yet dare not to flout the omen, to thrust your galley therein! And these things shall fall as they haply shall fall. But if scatheless ye shun The rush of the Clashing Rocks, and the Pontus Sea shall be won, Sailing therefrom, the Bithynians' land to your right shall ye keep, Ever heedfully standing out from the reefs, until ye shall sweep Round the outfall of swift-flowing Rheba, and round the head- land dark, And within the haven of Thyne''s isle shall anchor your bark. 350 Thence turn ye aback for a little space o'er the long sea-swell, Till ye beach your keel on the strand where the Mariandyniansdwell. Thereby is a path through darkness descending to Hades' hall, And the Cape Acherusian towereth upward, a giant wall. And swirling Acheron cleaving the mountain's heart unseen Suddenly poureth forth his flood from a mighty ravine. Thereby many column-hills of the Paphlagonian shore Shall ye pass, the nation whose king was in Ene...« less