Full many Alkinoüs gave them, and many Arêtê gave. {1220}

Thereafter withal on Medea Phaeacian handmaid-thralls

Twelve did the Queen bestow, to follow her forth of her halls.

On the seventh day sailed they away from Drepanê. Came with the morn

A fresh breeze sent of Zeus: and so by the wind’s breath borne

Onward and onward they ran. Howbeit not yet on the strand

Of Achaia by doom of the God might they tread, that hero-band,

Till yet they had toiled in the uttermost parts of Libya-land.

And now by the bay that is named the Ambracian Gulf had they sped,

And now had they left the Aetolian land with sail wide spread;