There run your ship abeach out of the sea,
“Beside the Ocean-stream’s deep-eddying flow,
And to the mouldering house of Hades go
Afoot.“[[9]]
She told him all that he must do there; how he must pass right through the crowding shadowy forms, and where two loud-thundering rivers meet he must dig a trench and pour out a drink-offering before the dead. But he must not let them partake of it, and must keep them at bay with drawn sword till the prophet Tiresias should appear and prophesy to him of his return.
So spake she, and Dawn straightway rose and shone
Gold-throned; and in my shirt and cloak anon
I clad me, and the nymph herself a great
White mantle, thin and beautiful, put on;
And round her loins a golden girdle fair