Foretells fair voyage to the mariner.

O saviours, O companions of mankind,

Matchless on horse or harp, in lists or lay;

Which of ye twain demands my earliest song?

Of both I sing; of Polydeuces first.

Argo, escaped the two inrushing rocks,

And snow-clad Pontus with his baleful jaws,

Came to Bebrycia with her heaven-sprung freight;

There by one ladder disembarked a host

Of Heroes from the decks of Jason's ship.