But Euphemus strode among all his comrades and cried to them to bend to their oars with all their might; and they with a shout smote the water.

And as far as the ship yielded to the rowers, twice as far did she leap back, and the oar, were bent like curved bows as the heroes used their strength.
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593-610) Then a vaulted billow rushed upon them, and the ship like a cylinder ran on the furious wave plunging through the hollow sea.

And the eddying current held her between the clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship's timbers were held fast.
Then Athena with her left hand thrust back one mighty rock and with her right pushed the ship through; and she, like a winged arrow, sped through the air.

Nevertheless the rocks, ceaselessly clashing, shore off as she passed the extreme end of the stern-ornament.