As the old be left by the young: and he passed on afar, and was gone.

So when he had left the streets of the city builded fair,

To the beach Pagasaean he came, and his comrades hailed him there

In a throng abiding beside the Argo ship as she lay

By the river’s mouth, and overagainst her gathered they. {320}

And they looked, and behold, Adrastus and Argus hasting amain

Thitherward from the city, and sorely they marvelled, beholding the twain

Despite the purpose of Pelias thitherward hurrying fast.

On his shoulders a bull’s hide Argus the son of Arestor had cast,

Great, dark with the fell; but the prince in a mantle fair was arrayed,