Next she came to Hephaestus, and quickly made him cease from the clang of his iron hammers; and the smoke-grimed bellows were stayed from their blast.

And thirdly she came to Aeolus, the famous son of Hippotas.

And when she had given her message to him also and rested her swift knees from her course, then Thetis leaving Nereus and her sisters had come from the sea to Olympus to the goddess Hera; and the goddess made her sit by her side and uttered her word: "Hearken now, lady Thetis, to what I am eager to tell thee.

Thou knowest how honoured in my heart is the hero, Aeson's son, and the others that have helped him in the contest, and how I saved them when they passed between the Wandering rocks[1] where roar terrible storms of fire and the waves foam round the rugged reefs.

And now past the mighty rock of Scylla and Charybdis horribly belching, a course awaits them.