For it seemed about to leap down upon the ship's whole length and to overwhelm them.

But Tiphys was quick to ease the ship as she laboured with the oars; and in all its mass the wave rolled away beneath the keel, and at the stern it raised Argo herself and drew her far away from the rocks; and high in air was she borne.

But Euphemus strode among all his comrades and cried to them to bend to their oars with all their might; and they with a shout smote the water.

And as far as the ship yielded to the rowers, twice as far did she leap back, and the oars were bent like curved bows as the heroes used their strength.
Then a vaulted billow rushed upon them, and the ship like a cylinder ran on the furious wave plunging through the hollow sea.

And the eddying current held her between the clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship's timbers were held fast.