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The Argonautica

BOOK I
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Not long after they mixed libations in honour of Zeus, with pious rites as is customary, and poured them upon the burning tongues, and bethought them of sleep in the darkness.
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519-558) Now when gleaming dawn with bright eyes beheld the lofty peaks of Pelion, and the calm headlands were being drenched as the sea was ruffled by the winds, then Tiphys awoke from sleep; and at once he roused his comrades to go on board and make ready the oars.

And a strange cry did the harbour of Pagasae utter, yea and Pelian Argo herself, urging them to set forth.

For in her a beam divine had been laid which Athena had brought from an oak of Dodona and fitted in the middle of the stem.

And the heroes went to the benches one after the other, as they had previously assigned for each to row in his place, and took their seats in due order near their fighting gear.


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