336-1343) Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: "Good
friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before
them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man. But not for long will
I nurse bitter wrath, though indeed before I was grieved. For it was not
for flocks of sheep, no, nor for possessions that thou wast angered
to fury, but for a man, thy comrade. And I were fain thou wouldst even
champion me against another man if a like thing should ever befall me."

(ll. 1344-1357) He spake, and they sat down, united as of old. But of
those two, by the counsel of Zeus, one, Polyphemus son of Eilatus, was
destined to found and build a city among the Mysians bearing the river's
name, and the other, Heracles, to return and toil at the labours of
Eurystheus. And he threatened to lay waste the Mysian land at once,
should they not discover for him the doom of Hylas, whether living or
dead. And for him they gave pledges choosing out the noblest sons of the
people and took an oath that they would never cease from their labour of
search. Therefore to this day the people of Cius enquire for Hylas the
son of Theiodamas, and take thought for the well-built Trachis. For
there did Heracles settle the youths whom they sent from Cius as
pledges.

(ll. 1358-1362) And all day long and all night the wind bore the ship
on, blowing fresh and strong; but when dawn rose there was not even a
breath of air. And they marked a beach jutting forth from a bend of
the coast, very broad to behold, and by dint of rowing came to land at
sunrise.

BOOK II

(ll. 1-10) Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty
king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united
to Poseidon Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men; for even for
strangers he laid down an insulting ordinance, that none should depart
till they had made trial of him in boxing; and he had slain many of the
neighbours. And at that time too he went down to the ship and in his
insolence scorned to ask them the occasion of their voyage, and who they
were, but at once spake out among them all:

(ll. 11-18) "Listen, ye wanderers by sea, to what it befits you to
know. It is the rule that no stranger who comes to the Bebrycians should
depart till he has raised his hands in battle against mine. Wherefore
select your bravest warrior from the host and set him here on the spot
to contend with me in boxing. But if ye pay no heed and trample my
decr