Guard Trêchis the fair-built; for there did the hero cause to abide

The sons that they sent for their ransom to turn his fury aside.

And the wind all day bare onward the galley and all night through

With a fresh strong blast: but when dawning arose, the breath of it blew

No whit any more; and they spied jutting forth from a curve of the land {1360}

A foreland, and broad to behold that dark height swelled from the strand.

So they bent to the oars, and at sunrise the keel up-furrowed the sand.

THE SECOND BOOK

There were there steadings of cattle, and Amykus’ farms were there,

Proud king of Bebrykian men, whom erst a wood-nymph bare;