And he offered sacrifice meet to the star of the fiery glare

On the hills, and to Zeus himself the son of Kronos; and so

O’er the earth from Zeus the cool Etesian winds yet blow

For forty days: and, or ever the red Dog-star doth rise,

The priests in Kos unto this day offer him sacrifice.

So telleth the tale: and there were the heroes constrained to stay

Land-bound by the selfsame winds. But the Thynians day by day,

Of their love for Phineus, brought to them gifts of abundant cheer. {530}

And thereafter unto the Blessèd Twelve did the wanderers rear

On the further strand an altar, and victims offered they there