Yea, there be memorials twain of the wanderers yet high-reared.

Now telleth the tale how Tiphys the Hagniad died; for his weird

Was to voyage no further thereafter; but him, far away from his home,

Short sickness hushed into sleep, the endless sleep of the tomb,

While yet were the death-rites rendered to Abas’ son by the folk:

And grief unendurable seized them for this new ruin-stroke.

Yea, and when hard by the seer him too they had buried there,

On the shore of the sea did they cast them adown in utter despair, {860}

Rolled in their mantles from head to foot, all hushed: no part

Had meat nor drink in their thoughts; but in bitterness of heart