But I bid you who are younger give good heed to this.
For now at your feet a way of escape lies open, if ye trust to the strangers the care of your homes and all your stock and your glorious city." Thus she spake, and the assembly was filled with clamour.

For the word pleased them.

And after her straightway Hypsipyle rose up again, and thus spake in reply.
"If this purpose please you all, now will I even send a messenger to the ship." She spake and addressed Iphinoe close at hand: "Go, Iphinoe, and beg yonder man, whoever it is that leads this array, to come to our land that I may tell him a word that pleases the heart of my people, and bid the men themselves, if they wish, boldly enter the land and the city with friendly intent." She spake, and dismissed the assembly, and thereafter started to return home.

And so Iphinoe came to the Minyae; and they asked with what intent she had come among them.

And quickly she addressed her questioners with all speed in these words: "The maiden Hypsipyle daughter of Thoas, sent me on my way here to you, to summon the captain of your ship, whoever he be, that she may tell him a word that pleases the heart of the people, and she bids yourselves, if ye wish it, straightway enter the land and the city with friendly intent." Thus she spake and the speech of good omen pleased all.