nd wounds alone,
but lo! even from afar, may be, it tortures us! So Talos, for all
his frame of bronze, yielded the victory to the might of Medea the
sorceress. And as he was heaving massy rocks to stay them from reaching
the haven, he grazed his ankle on a pointed crag; and the ichor gushed
forth like melted lead; and not long thereafter did he stand towering on
the jutting cliff. But even as some huge pine, high up on the mountains,
which woodmen have left half hewn through by their sharp axes when they
returned from the forest--at first it shivers in the wind by night, then
at last snaps at the stump and crashes down; so Talos for a while
stood on his tireless feet, swaying to and fro, when at last, all
strengthless, fell with a mighty thud. For that night there in Crete the
heroes lay; then, just as dawn was growing bright, they built a shrine
to Minoan Athena, and drew water and went aboard, so that first of all
they might by rowing pass beyond Salmone's height.

(ll. 1694-1730) But straightway as they sped over the wide Cretan sea
night scared them, that night which they name the Pall of Darkness; the
stars pierced not that fatal night nor the beams of the moon, but black
chaos descended from heaven, or haply some other darkness came, rising
from the nethermost depths. And the heroes, whether they drifted in
Hades or on the waters, knew not one whit; but they committed their
return to the sea in helpless doubt whither it was bearing them. But
Jason raised his hands and cried to Phoebus with mighty voice, calling
on him to save them; and the tears ran down in his distress; and often
did he promise to bring countless offerings to Pytho, to Amyclae, and to
Ortygia. And quickly, O son of Leto, swift to hear, didst thou come down
from heaven to the Melantian rocks, which lie there in the sea. Then
darting upon one of the twin peaks, thou raisedst aloft in thy right
hand thy golden bow; and the bow flashed a dazzling gleam all round. And
to their sight appeared a small island of the Sporades, over against
the tiny isle Hippuris, and there they cast anchor and stayed; and
straightway dawn arose and gave them light; and they made for Apollo a
glorious abode in a shady wood, and a shady altar, calling on Phoebus
the "Gleamer", because of the gleam far-seen; and that bare island
they called Anaphe, [1413] for that Phoebus had revealed it to men sore
bewildered. And they sacrificed all that men could provide for sacrifice
on