put forth flowers from the tender
grass. And the beasts of the wild wood left their lairs and thickets and
came up fawning on them with their tails. And she caused yet another
marvel; for hitherto there was no flow of water on Dindymum, but then
for them an unceasing stream gushed forth from the thirsty peak just as
it was, and the dwellers around in after times called that stream, the
spring of Jason. And then they made a feast in honour of the goddess on
the Mount of Bears, singing the praises of Rhea most venerable; but at
dawn the winds had ceased and they rowed away from the island.

Thereupon a spirit of contention stirred each chieftain, who should be
the last to leave his oar. For all around the windless air smoothed the
swirling waves and lulled the sea to rest. And they, trusting in the
calm, mightily drove the ship forward; and as she sped through the salt
sea, not even the storm-footed steeds of Poseidon would have overtaken
her. Nevertheless when the sea was stirred by violent blasts which were
just rising from the rivers about evening, forspent with toil, they
ceased. But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers
along all together, and made the strong-knit timbers of the ship to
quiver. But when, eager to reach the Mysian mainland, they passed along
in sight of the mouth of Rhyndacus and the great cairn of Aegaeon, a
little way from Phrygia, then Heracles, as he ploughed up the furrows of
the roughened surge, broke his oar in the middle. And one half he held
in both his hands as he fell sideways, the other the sea swept away with
its receding wave. And he sat up in silence glaring round; for his hands
were unaccustomed to lie idle.

Now at the hour when from the field some delver or ploughman goes gladly
home to his hut, longing for his evening meal, and there on the
threshold, all squalid with dust, bows his wearied knees, and, beholding
his hands worn with toil, with many a curse reviles his belly; at that
hour the heroes reached the homes of the Cianian land near the
Arganthonian mount and the outfall of Cius. Them as they came in
friendliness, the Mysians, inhabitants of that land, hospitably
welcomed, and gave them in their need provisions and sheep and abundant
wine. Hereupon some brought dried wood, others from the meadows leaves
for beds which they gathered in abundance for strewing, whilst others
were twirling sticks to get fire; others again were mixing wine in the
bowl and maki