Yea, awe refraineth my lips. Yet the altar on that far day {250}

To the Goddess upreared by the heroes hard by the breaking sea

Yet standeth, a sign to be seen of the children of days to be.

Straightway to Aison’s son, and the heroes withal, came back

Remembrance of Phineus, and how that he spake of another track

To be found from Aia: howbeit to all was his meaning dim,

Till Argus arose and spake, and eager they hearkened to him:

‘We may win to Orchomenus, whither the prophecy bade us fare

Of the seer unerring, whose guests in the days overpast ye were.

For another voyaging-course there is, a sea-path shown