Callichorus[1] and the cave
Aulion.[2]

[Footnote 1: i.e. river of fair dances.]

[Footnote 2: i.e. the bedchamber.]

Next they beheld the barrow of Sthenelus, Actor's son, who on his way
back from the valorous war against the Amazons--for he had been the
comrade of Heracles--was struck by an arrow and died there upon the
sea-beach. And for a time they went no further, for Persephone herself
sent forth the spirit of Actor's son which craved with many tears to
behold men like himself, even for a moment. And mounting on the edge of
the barrow he gazed upon the ship, such as he was when he went to war;
and round his head a fair helm with four peaks gleamed with its
blood-red crest. And again he entered the vast gloom; and they looked
and marvelled; and Mopsus, son of Ampycus, with word of prophecy urged
them to land and propitiate him with libations. Quickly they drew in
sail and threw out hawsers, and on the strand paid honour to the tomb of
Sthenelus, and poured out drink offerings to him and sacrificed sheep as
victims. And besides the drink offerings they built an altar to Apollo,
saviour of ships, and burnt thigh bones; and Orpheus dedicated his lyre;
whence the place has the name of Lyra.

And straightway they went aboard as the wind blew strong; and they drew
the sail down, and made it taut to both sheets; then Argo was borne over
the sea swiftly, even as a hawk soaring high through the air commits to
the breeze its outspread wings and is borne on swiftly, nor swerves in
its flight, poising in the clear sky with quiet pinions. And lo, they
passed by the stream of Parthenius as it flows into the sea, a most
gentle river, where the maid, daughter of Leto, when she mounts to
heaven after the chase, cools her limbs in its much-desired waters. Then
they sped onward in the night without ceasing, and passed Sesamus and
lofty Erythini, Crobialus, Cromna and woody Cytorus. Next they swept
round Carambis at the rising of the sun, and plied the oars past long
Aegialus, all day and on through the night.

And straightway they landed on the Assyrian shore where Zeus himself
gave a home to Sinope, daughter of Asopus, and granted her virginity,
beguiled by his own promises. For he longed for her love, and he
promised to grant her whatever her heart's desire might be. And she in
her craftiness asked of him virginity. And in like manner she deceived
Apollo too who longed to wed her, and besides them the river Halys, and
no man