402-410) Next, piling up shingle near the sea, they raised there an altar on the shore to Apollo, under the name of Actius [1103] and Embasius, and quickly spread above it logs of dried olive-wood.

Meantime the herdsmen of Aeson's son had driven before them from the herd two steers.

These the younger comrades dragged near the altars, and the others brought lustral water and barley meal, and Jason prayed, calling on Apollo the god of his fathers: (ll.

411-424) "Hear, O King, that dwellest in Pagasae and the city Aesonis, the city called by my father's name, thou who didst promise me, when I sought thy oracle at Pytho, to show the fulfilment and goal of my journey, for thou thyself hast been the cause of my venture; now do thou thyself guide the ship with my comrades safe and sound, thither and back again to Hellas.

Then in thy honour hereafter we will lay again on thy altar the bright offerings of bulls--all of us who return; and other gifts in countless numbers I will bring to Pytho and Ortygia.