The Argo

From this to the sailing of the Argo, sixty-four years.

and Asclepius and the Dioscuri sailed with them, as Apollonius of Rhodes testifies in his Argonautica.

For Medea would not have slain her children had she not been angered, nor would she have been angered had she not been jealous, nor this, had she not loved, nor this, had not Jason sailed to Colchis, nor this, had not the Argo been built, nor this, had not the timbers been cut from Pelion.

I saved thy life, as every Hellene knows who sailed with thee aboard the good ship Argo, when thou wert sent to tame and yoke fire-breathing bulls, and to sow the deadly tilth.

would to Heaven the good ship Argo ne’er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftain’s hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias;

On me the gods have hurled the curse that dogged thy steps, for thou didst slay thy brother at his hearth ere thou cam’st aboard our fair ship Argo.

And as that shepherd in Accius, who had never before seen a ship, when from a mountain he beheld afar the divine and strange vessel of the Argonauts, at first wondering and terrified speaks in this wise:

For if those think they attain something now who have seen the mouth of the Pontus and those straits through which passed the ship named Argo, "because chosen Argive men sailed in her to seek the golden fleece of the ram," or those who have seen those straits of Ocean "where the ravening wave divides Europe and Libya" — what spectacle, pray, do we think it will be, when it shall be permitted to be …

And there was a contest of ships too, and the Argo won, and after that she did not sail, but Jason dedicated her here to Poseidon, and inscribed the epigram which they say is Orpheus':

and on Argo’s deck didst pass the cheerless strait beyond the sea-beat Symplegades on her voyage of note;

The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aietes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Hera piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.

, the bridle of the swift Argo, against the ship.

And when they hung the anchor over the ship’s ram, the leader, standing at the stern, took in his hands a golden goblet and called on the father of Uranus’ descendants, Zeus whose spear is the thunderbolt;

And coursing along, [they saw Jason’s Cape, where the Argo is said to have come to anchor, and the mouths of the rivers, first the Thermodon, then the Iris, third the Halys, and after that the Parthenius;