Quickly the king saw him and pondered, and devised for him the toil of a troublous voyage, in order that on the sea or among strangers he might lose his home-return.
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18-22) The ship, as former bards relate, Argus wrought by the guidance of Athena.

But now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea-paths and the deeds they wrought in their wanderings; may the Muses be the inspirers of my song! (ll.

23-34) First then let us name Orpheus whom once Calliope bare, it is said, wedded to Thracian Oeagrus, near the Pimpleian height.

Men say that he by the music of his songs charmed the stubborn rocks upon the mountains and the course of rivers.