But a goddess-nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind." He spake, and with a plunge wrapped him about with the restless wave; and round him the dark water foamed in seething eddies and dashed against the hollow ship as it moved through the sea.

And the heroes rejoiced, and Telamon son of Aeacus came in haste to Jason, and grasping his hand in his own embraced him with these words: "Son of Aeson, be not wroth with me, if in my folly I have erred, for grief wrought upon me to utter a word arrogant and intolerable.

But let me give my fault to the winds and let our hearts be joined as before." Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: "Good friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man.

But not for long will I nurse bitter wrath, though indeed before I was grieved.

For it was not for flocks of sheep, no, nor for possessions that thou wast angered to fury, but for a man, thy comrade.