With grievous dissension shall these, and with faction, asunder be cleft. {500}
Wherefore our path henceforward,—when sundered our foemen are
Each from his fellow,—to Hellas home shall be easier far.’
He spake, and the young men praised the counsel of Aiakus’ child;
And they entered the ship with haste, and they grasped the oars, and they toiled
Without rest, till they won by the sacred isle of Elektra—the same
Of the eyots is highest—and so to the river Eridanus came.
Now the Kolchians, so soon as the doom of their murdered king they knew,
Eager were they for Argo to search and her Minyan crew
Through all the Kronian Sea: but Hêrê held them back