Hereupon a wave like a steep mountain rose aloft in front as though rushing upon them, ever upheaved above the clouds; nor would you say that they could escape grim death, for in its fury it hangs over the middle of the ship, like a cloud, yet it sinks away into calm if it meets with a skilful helmsman.

So they by the steering-craft of Tiphys escaped, unhurt but sore dismayed.

And on the next day they fastened the hawsers to the coast opposite the Bithynian land.
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178-208) There Phineus, son of Agenor, had his home by the sea, Phineus who above all men endured most bitter woes because of the gift of prophecy which Leto's son had granted him aforetime.

And he reverenced not a whit even Zeus himself, for he foretold unerringly to men his sacred will.