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The Argonautica

BOOK II
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Thence ye must turn back a little space through the sea and beach your ship on the land of the Mariandyni lying opposite.

Here is a downward path to the abode of Hades, and the headland of Acherusia stretches aloft, and eddying Acheron cleaves its way at the bottom, even through the headland, and sends its waters forth from a huge ravine.

And near it ye will sail past many hills of the Paphlagonians, over whom at the first Eneteian Pelops reigned, and of his blood they boast themselves to be." (ll.

360-406) "Now there is a headland opposite Helice the Bear, steep on all sides, and they call it Carambis, about whose crests the blasts of the north wind are sundered.

So high in the air does it rise turned towards the sea.


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