1047-1067) "The island of Ares is near us; you know it yourselves now that ye have seen these birds.

But little will arrows avail us, I trow, for landing.

But let us contrive some other device to help us, if ye intend to land, bearing in mind the injunction of Phineus.

For not even could Heracles, when he came to Arcadia, drive away with bow and arrow the birds that swam on the Stymphalian lake.

I saw it myself.