. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. s comrades, and he wasmet by Hypsipyle, her fathers crown upon her head, at the headof her maidens. They greeted each other, and Hypsipyle badethe heroes come with them to their town that was called Myrineand to the palace that was there. Wonderingly the Argonauts went, looking on womens formsand faces and seeing no men. They came to the palace and wentwithin. Hypsipyle mounted the stone throne that was KingThoass and the four maidens who were her guards stood eachside of her. She spoke to the heroes in greeting and bade themstay in
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. s comrades, and he wasmet by Hypsipyle, her fathers crown upon her head, at the headof her maidens. They greeted each other, and Hypsipyle badethe heroes come with them to their town that was called Myrineand to the palace that was there. Wonderingly the Argonauts went, looking on womens formsand faces and seeing no men. They came to the palace and wentwithin. Hypsipyle mounted the stone throne that was KingThoass and the four maidens who were her guards stood eachside of her. She spoke to the heroes in greeting and bade themstay in peace for as long as they would. She told them of thecurse that had fallen upon the people of Lemnos, and of how themenfolk had been banished. Jason, then, told the queen whatvoyage he and his companions were upon and what quest theywere making. Then in friendship the Argonauts and the womenof Lemnos stayed together — all the Argonauts except Heracles,and he, grieving still for Hylas, stayed aboard the Argo. 58 THE GOLDEN FLEECE IX. THE LEMNIAN MAIDENS ND now the Argonauts were no longer ona ship that was being dashed on by thesea and beaten upon by the winds. Theyhad houses to live in; they had honey-tasting things to eat, and when they wentthrough the island each man might havewith him one of the maidens of was a change that was welcome to the wearied voyagers. They helped the women in the work of the fields; they huntedthe beasts with them, and over and over again they were sur-prised at how skillfully the women had ordered all in Lemnos was strange to the Argonauts, and theystayed day after day, thinking each day a fresh adventure. Sometimes they would leave the fields and the chase, and thishero or that hero, with her who was his friend amongst the Lem-nian maidens, would go far into that strange land and look uponlakes that were all covered with golden and silver water lilies,or would gather the blue flowers from creepers that grew aroun
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