102 foll.] [Footnote 2: Or, reading [Greek: hemeteren], "into our sea." The Euxine is meant in any case and the word Ionian is therefore wrong.] Thus he spake, and to them the goddess granted a happy portent, and all at the sight shouted approval, that this was their appointed path.

For before them appeared a trail of heavenly light, a sign where they might pass.

And gladly they left behind there the son of Lycus and with canvas outspread sailed over the sea, with their eyes on the Paphlagonian mountains.

But they did not round Carambis, for the winds and the gleam of the heavenly fire stayed with them till they reached Ister's mighty stream.
Now some of the Colchians, in a vain search, passed out from Pontus through the Cyanean rocks; but the rest went to the river, and them Apsyrtus led, and, turning aside, he entered the mouth called Fair.
Wherefore he outstripped the heroes by crossing a neck of land into the furthest gulf of the Ionian sea.

For a certain island is enclosed by Ister, by name Peuce, three-cornered, its base stretching along the coast, and with a sharp angle towards the river; and round it the outfall is cleft in two.