First entrust the attempt to a dove when ye have sent her forth from the ship.

And if she escapes safe with her wings between the rocks to the open sea, then no more do ye refrain from the path, but grip your oars well in your hands and cleave the sea's narrow strait, for the light of safety will be not so much in prayer as in strength of hands.
Wherefore let all else go and labour boldly with might and main, but ere then implore the gods as ye will, I forbid you not.

But if she flies onward and perishes midway, then do ye turn back; for it is better to yield to the immortals.

For ye could not escape an evil doom from the rocks, not even if Argo were of iron.
"O hapless ones, dare not to transgress my divine warning, even though ye think that I am thrice as much hated by the sons of heaven as I am, and even more than thrice; dare not to sail further with your ship in despite of the omen.

And as these things will fall, so shall they fall.
But if ye shun the clashing rocks and come scatheless inside Pontus, straightway keep the land of the Bithynians on your right and sail on, and beware of the breakers, until ye round the swift river Rhebas and the black beach, and reach the harbour of the Isle of Thynias.