Go then, and fearlessly the deep
Plow with your daring ships; but fear650
The peaceful pools.
Idmon, though well be knew the fates,
A serpent slew on Afric sands;
And Mopsus, to all others true,
False to himself, died far from Thebes.655
If he with truth the future sang,
Then Nauplius, who strove to wreck
The Argive ships by lying fires,