502-514) Thus he spake; and to all the contest seemed one that none could accomplish, and long, quiet and silent, they looked at one another, bowed down with the calamity and their despair; but at last Peleus spake with courageous words among all the chiefs: "It is time to be counselling what we shall do.

Yet there is not so much profit, I trow, in counsel as in the might of our hands.

If thou then, hero son of Aeson, art minded to yoke Aeetes' oxen, and art eager for the toil, surely thou wilt keep thy promise and make thyself ready.

But if thy soul trusts not her prowess utterly, then neither bestir thyself nor sit still and look round for some one else of these men.

For it is not I who will flinch, since the bitterest pain will be but death." (ll.