in whatever land they should be placed, that
land should never be ravaged by the attacks of foemen. Therefore even
now this tripod is hidden in that land near the pleasant city of Hyllus,
far beneath the earth, that it may ever be unseen by mortals. Yet they
found not King Hyllus still alive in the land, whom fair Melite bare
to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians. For he came to the abode of
Nausithous and to Macris, the nurse of Dionysus, to cleanse himself from
the deadly murder of his children; here he loved and overcame the water
nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus, and she bare mighty
Hyllus. But when he had grown up he desired not to dwell in that island
under the rule of Nausithous the king; but he collected a host of native
Phaeacians and came to the Cronian sea; for the hero King Nausithous
aided his journey, and there he settled, and the Mentores slew him as he
was fighting for the oxen of his field.

(ll. 552-556) Now, goddesses, say how it is that beyond this sea,
near the land of Ausonia and the Ligystian isles, which are called
Stoechades, the mighty tracks of the ship Argo are clearly sung of? What
great constraint and need brought the heroes so far? What breezes wafted
them?

(ll. 557-591) When Apsyrtus had fallen in mighty overthrow Zeus himself,
king of gods, was seized with wrath at what they had done. And he
ordained that by the counsels of Aeaean Circe they should cleanse
themselves from the terrible stain of blood and suffer countless woes
before their return. Yet none of the chieftains knew this; but far
onward they sped starting from the Hyllean land, and they left behind
all the islands that were beforetime thronged by the Colchians--the
Liburnian isles, isle after isle, Issa, Dysceladus, and lovely Pityeia.
Next after them they came to Corcyra, where Poseidon settled the
daughter of Asopus, fair-haired Corcyra, far from the land of Phlius,
whence he had carried her off through love; and sailors beholding it
from the sea, all black with its sombre woods, call it Corcyra the
Black. And next they passed Melite, rejoicing in the soft-blowing
breeze, and steep Cerossus, and Nymphaea at a distance, where lady
Calypso, daughter of Atlas, dwelt; and they deemed they saw the misty
mountains of Thunder. And then Hera bethought her of the counsels and
wrath of Zeus concerning them. And she devised an ending of their voyage
and stirred up storm-winds before them, by which they were caught