And the Harpies and Iris parted.

They entered their den in Minoan Crete; but she sped up to Olympus, soaring aloft on her swift wings.
Meanwhile the chiefs carefully cleansed the old man's squalid skin and with due selection sacrificed sheep which they had borne away from the spoil of Amycus.

And when they had laid a huge supper in the hall, they sat down and feasted, and with them feasted Phineus ravenously, delighting his soul, as in a dream.

And there, when they had taken their fill of food and drink, they kept awake all night waiting for the sons of Boreas.

And the aged sire himself sat in the midst, near the hearth, telling of the end of their voyage and the completion of their journey: "Listen then.