. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. r Phasis. And nowabove Jasons head the bird of peaceful days, the Halcyon,fluttered, and the Argonauts knew that this was a sign fromthe gods that the voyage would not any more be troublous. XII. THE MOUNTAIN CAUCASUS HEY rested in the harbor of Thynias,the desert island, and sailing from therethey came to the land of the Marian-dyni, a people who were constantly atwar with the Bebrycians; there the heroPoly deuces was welcomed as a days afterward they passed themouth of the River Callichorus; then they came to the moutho
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. r Phasis. And nowabove Jasons head the bird of peaceful days, the Halcyon,fluttered, and the Argonauts knew that this was a sign fromthe gods that the voyage would not any more be troublous. XII. THE MOUNTAIN CAUCASUS HEY rested in the harbor of Thynias,the desert island, and sailing from therethey came to the land of the Marian-dyni, a people who were constantly atwar with the Bebrycians; there the heroPoly deuces was welcomed as a days afterward they passed themouth of the River Callichorus; then they came to the mouthof that river that flows through the land of the Amazons, theRiver Thermodon. Fourteen days from that place broughtthem to the island that is filled with the birds of Ares, the godof war. These birds dropped upon the heroes heavy, pointedfeathers that would have pierced them as arrows if they hadnot covered themselves with their shields; then by shouting,and by striking their shields with their spears, they raised sucha clamor as • <*ove the birds 98 the golden fleece They sailed on, borne by a gentle breeze, until a gulf of thesea opened before them, and lo! a mountain that they knewbore some mighty name. Orpheus, looking on its peak and itscrags, said, Lo, now! We, the Argonauts, are looking uponthe mountain that is named Caucasus! When he declared the name the heroes all stood up andlooked on the mountain with awe. And in awe they cried outa name, and that name was Prometheus! For upon that mountain the Titan god was held, his limbsbound upon the hard rocks by fetters of bronze. Even as theArgonauts looked toward the mountain a great shadow fellupon their ship, and looking up they saw a monstrous birdflying. The beat of the birds wings filled out the sail anddrove the Argo swiftly onward. It is the bird sent by Zeus,Orpheus said. It is the vulture that every day devours theliver of the Titan god. They cowered down on the ship asthey heard that word — all the Arg
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