The Argonautica

bore there by Pimpleia's high lookout peak.

Then they tell how the unyielding rocks in the mountains,

and river streams he charmed with the ringing sound of his songs.

Wild oaks, even now the memorial signs of that singing,

flourishing along the Thracian headland there at Zone,

in order they stand, rank upon rank and close-pressed;

he led them onward and down from Pieria, charmed by his lyre.

Such was Orpheus; Aeson's son chose him to aid

his own trials, obeying the charge Chiron gave;

he took the lord then ruling Bistonian Pieria.

Then Asterion came straightway, the man whom Cometes

begot beside the eddying river-waters of Apidanus;

Asterion dwelt at Peiresiae, near the Phylleian mountain,

there mighty Apidanus and radiant Enipeus meet,

both flowing from afar, their waters joined into one.

After these, Polyphemus arrived, leaving Larissa behind,

the son of Eilatus, who once among the mighty Lapiths,

when the Lapiths arrayed themselves in arms against the Centaurs,

had fought as their youngest; by now his limbs were growing heavy,

yet still his warlike spirit remained, even as before.

Nor indeed did Iphiclus linger long there in Phylace,

maternal uncle to Aeson's son, for Aeson had married

his sister Alcimede, Phylacus' daughter; her close ties

of kinship and marriage urged him to join the gathered band.