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[*]Such is one ill I bid thee guard against;

Now hear another monstrous sight: Beware

The sharp-beaked hounds of Zeus that never bark,[[189]]

The Gryphons, and the one-eyed, mounted host

Of Arimaspians, who around the stream

That flows o'er gold, the ford of Pluto, dwell:[[190]]

Draw not thou nigh to them. But distant land

Thou shalt approach, the swarthy tribes who dwell

By the sun's fountain,[[191]] Æthiopia's stream: