Then Nereus’ daughters from this side and that side the heroes met, {930}

And Thetis the Goddess her hand to the blade of the rudder set;

And onward amidst of the Wandering Rocks the ship haled they.

And as when o’er the face of a summer sea the dolphins play

Circling around a ship as she runneth before the wind,

One while in front of her stern beheld, one while behind,

And alongside anon: and the shipmen be blithe for their gambolling;

So darted they up from the depths, so circled, a glimmering ring,

Round Argo the ship; and Thetis was steering her course through all.

And when now was the galley at point on the Wandering Rocks to fall,