Where is Cleopatra our sister, your wife, whom you keep in
prison? and where are her two children, whom you blinded in your rage,
at the bidding of an evil woman, and cast them out upon the rocks? Swear
to us that you will right our sister, and cast out that wicked woman;
and then we will free you from your plague, and drive the whirlwind
maidens from the south; but if not, we will put out your eyes, as you
put out the eyes of your own sons."
Then Phineus swore an oath to them, and drove out the wicked woman; and
Jason took those two poor children, and cured their eyes with magic
herbs.
But Zetes and Calais rose up sadly; and said: "Farewell now, heroes
all; farewell, our dear companions, with whom we played on Pelion in old
times; for a fate is laid upon us, and our day is come at last, in which
we may hunt the whirlwinds, over land and sea forever; and if we catch
them they die, and if not, we die ourselves."
At that all the heroes wept; but the two young men sprang up, and aloft
into the air after the Harpies, and the battle of the winds began.
The heroes trembled in silence as they heard the shrieking of the
blasts; while the palace rocked and all the city, and great stones were
torn from the crags, and the forest pines were hurled eastward, north
and south and east and west, and the Bosphorus boiled white with foam,
and the clouds were dashed against the cliffs.
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