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PART III
_How They Built the Ship Argo in Iolcos_
So the heralds went out, and cried to all the heroes of the Minuai, "Who
dare come to the adventure of the golden fleece?"
And Hera stirred the hearts of all the princes, and they came from all
their valleys to the yellow sands of Pagasai. And first came Heracles
the mighty, with his lion's skin and club, and behind him Hylas his
young squire, who bore his arrows and his bow; and Tiphys, the skilful
steersman; and Butes, the fairest of all men; and Castor and Polydeuces
the twins, the sons of the magic swan; and Caineus, the strongest of
mortals, whom the Centaurs tried in vain to kill, and overwhelmed him
with trunks of pine trees, but even so he would not die; and thither
came Zetes and Calais, the winged sons of the north wind; and Peleus,
the father of Achilles, whose bride was silver-footed Thetis the goddess
of the sea. And thither came Telamon and Oileus, the fathers of the two
Aiantes, who fought upon the plains of Troy; and Mopsus, the wise
soothsayer, who knew the speech of birds; and Idmon, to whom Phoebus
gave a tongue to prophesy of things to come; and Ancaios, who could read
the stars, and knew all the circles of the heavens; and Argus, the famed
shipbuilder, and many a hero more, in helmets of brass and gold with
tall dyed horsehair crests, and embroidered shirts of linen beneath
their coats of mail, and greaves of polished tin to guard their knees in
fight; with each man his shield upon his shoulder, of many a fold of
tough bull's hide, and his sword of tempered bronze in his
silver-studded belt, and in his right hand a pair of lances, of the
heavy white-ash stave.
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