ut do thou hold a nobler thought of me, since by the grace of Pelias it
is enough for me to dwell in my native land; may the gods only release
me from my toils. But if it is not my destiny to sail afar and return
to the land of Hellas, and if thou shouldst bear a male child, send him
when grown up to Pelasgian Iolcus, to heal the grief of my father and
mother if so be that he find them still living, in order that, far away
from the king, they may be cared for by their own hearth in their home."

(ll. 910-921) He spake, and mounted the ship first of all; and so the
rest of the chiefs followed, and, sitting in order, seized the oars;
and Argus loosed for them the hawsers from under the sea-beaten rock.
Whereupon they mightily smote the water with their long oars, and in
the evening by the injunctions of Orpheus they touched at the island of
Electra, [1105] daughter of Atlas, in order that by gentle initiation
they might learn the rites that may not be uttered, and so with greater
safety sail over the chilling sea. Of these I will make no further
mention; but I bid farewell to the island itself and the indwelling
deities, to whom belong those mysteries, which it is not lawful for me
to sing.

(ll. 922-935) Thence did they row with eagerness over the depths of
the black Sea, having on the one side the land of the Thracians, on the
other Imbros on the south; and as the sun was just setting they reached
the foreland of the Chersonesus. There a strong south wind blew for
them; and raising the sails to the breeze they entered the swift stream
of the maiden daughter of Athamas; and at dawn the sea to the north was
left behind and at night they were coasting inside the Rhoeteian shore,
with the land of Ida on their right. And leaving Dardania they directed
their course to Abydus, and after it they sailed past Percote and the
sandy beach of Abarnis and divine Pityeia. And in that night, as the
ship sped on by sail and oar, they passed right through the Hellespont
dark-gleaming with eddies.

(ll. 936-960) There is a lofty island inside the Propontis, a short
distance from the Phrygian mainland with its rich cornfields, sloping
to the sea, where an isthmus in front of the mainland is flooded by the
waves, so low does it lie. And the isthmus has double shores, and they
lie beyond the river Aesepus, and the inhabitants round about call the
island the Mount of Bears. And insolent and fierce men dwell there,
Earthborn, a great marvel