The Argonautica

that gentle river, where the divine huntress, Leto's daughter,

returning from the hunt and climbing back to high heaven,

cools her whole body in the river's lovely currents.

Then through the night, still racing relentlessly onward,

they passed Sesamus, then high Erythini headlands,

Crobialus, Cromna, Cytorus robed in deep forest.

From there, as the sun cast forth his earliest rays,

they rounded Carambis, then drove their laboring oars

along broad Aegialus all day and through the following night.

At once they set foot on Assyria's land, where Zeus settled

Sinope, child of Asopus, granting her one boon:

to keep her maidenhood--Zeus, snared by his own promise.

For Zeus desired her bed; he gave a solemn nod

to give whatever her own mind might set its course toward.

Cunningly she asked Zeus to grant perpetual maidenhood.

So too she deceived Apollo, who yearned deeply for her bed,

and, after them both, River Halys; nor did any man

ever subdue that woman within desirable arms.

There three sons born to noble Deimachus of Tricca

were living there still: Deileon, Autolycus, and Phlogius;

all three had wandered far astray from Heracles' company.

Seeing the mustered host of all those heroic men,

they went to meet them and openly declared themselves in truth.

They wished no longer to remain there permanently, but onto