One leads through Phocian land, to Bacchus dear,

Where high Parnassus, by a gentle slope280

The lowlands leaving, lifts his double peak

Into the heavens; and one leads off to where

Two oceans bathe the land of Sisyphus;

A third path, passing through Olenian fields,

Along a hollow valley's winding way,

Attains the vagrant waters and divides

The chilling current of the Elean stream.285

'Twas here he journeyed, safe 'mid general peace,