Jason to stir them to deeds, and thus spake Aison’s son:
‘Let Argus be sent from the ship, seeing all commend this thing;
But let us which remain from her hiding-place in the river bring
And openly moor to the shore our galley; for now gone by {570}
Is the time for hiding as cravens that cower from the onset-cry.’
So did he speak: and he hasted the feet of Argus again
To return to the city with speed, and the hawsers drew they then
Out of the stream inboard at Aison’s son’s command;
And a little above the backwater rowed they the galley aland.
But Aiêtes assembled for council the Kolchian men in haste