The Argonautica

into the eastern sea; a hollow gorge leads it down from above.

In later generations Nisaean Megarians named the river

Sounautes, Sailor-Savior, when they planned new homes

in Mariandynian country; indeed, this river saved them

with ships and all, when a savage squall closed hard around them.

By that same way the heroes drove Argo through the cape

and beached Argo facing inland as the wind had just died.

King Lycus soon perceived the men upon his coast,

and Mariandynian men likewise marked the moored arrivals,

Amycus' killers, famed in tales they heard before.

For that very deed they made a lasting pact of friendship,

and welcomed Polydeuces himself with honors fit for gods,

gathering round from every side, since through many years

they had long fought face to face with overbearing Bebrycians.

Then all together they passed inside the halls of Lycus

that day as friends, once they entered Lycus' city;

they joined the feast, delighting their hearts with spoken stories.

Aeson's son told Lycus the lineage and name of each

companion one by one, and then King Pelias' commands,

and how the Lemnian women gladly welcomed them as guests,

every deed accomplished round Dolionian Cyzicus;

how they reached Mysian Cius; there they left the hero

Heracles behind against their will, and Glaucus' message

he told, and how they struck the Bebrycians and Amycus down;