Now when they had sacrificed and eaten the feast prepared, then Aeson's son spake among them and thus began: (ll.

1179-1195) "Zeus' self, I ween, beholds everything; nor do we men escape his eye, we that be god-fearing and just, for as he rescued your father from the hands of a murderous step-dame and gave him measureless wealth besides; even so hath he saved you harmless from the baleful storm.

And on board this ship ye may sail hither and thither, where ye will, whether to Aea or to the wealthy city of divine Orthomenus.

For our ship Athena built and with axe of bronze cut her timbers near the crest of Pelion, and with the goddess wrought Argus.

But yours the fierce surge hath shattered, before ye came nigh to the rocks which all day long clash together in the straits of the sea.