The rocks and the tyrannous waves are my fear, they alone, and them thou canst foil with thy sisters' aid.

And let them not fall in their helplessness into Charybdis lest she swallow them at one gulp, or approach the hideous lair of Scylla, Ausonian Scylla the deadly, whom night-wandering Hecate, who is called Crataeis,[2] bare to Phorcys, lest swooping upon them with her horrible jaws she destroy the chiefest of the heroes.

But guide their ship in the course where there shall be still a hair's breadth escape from destruction." [Footnote 1: The _Symplegades_ are referred to, where help was given by Athena, not by Hera.

It is strange that no mention is made of the _Planctae_, properly so called, past which they are soon to be helped.
Perhaps some lines have fallen out.] [Footnote 2: i.e.the Mighty One.] Thus she spake, and Thetis answered with these words: "If the fury of the ravening flame and the stormy winds cease in very deed, surely will I promise boldly to save the ship, even though the waves bar the way, if only the west wind blows fresh and clear.

But it is time to fare on a long and measureless path, in quest of my sisters who will aid me, and to the spot where the ship's hawsers are fastened, that at early dawn the heroes may take thought to win their home-return." She spake, and darting down from the sky fell amid the eddies of the dark blue sea; and she called aid her the rest of the Nereids, her own sisters; and they heard her and gathered together; and Thetis declared to them Hera's behests, and quickly sped them all on their way to the Ausonian sea.