And each one started up eager to touch it and clasp it in his hands.

But the son of Aeson restrained them all, and threw over it a mantle newly-woven; and he led the maiden to the stern and seated her there, and spake to them all as follows: "No longer now, my friends, forbear to return to your fatherland.

For now the task for which we dared this grievous voyage, toiling with bitter sorrow of heart, has been lightly fulfilled by the maiden's counsels.

Her--for such is her will--I will bring home to be my wedded wife; do ye preserve her, the glorious saviour of all Achaea and of yourselves.

For of a surety, I ween, will Aeetes come with his host to bar our passage from the river into the sea.