And so with them, borne along by the swift breeze, the heroes left behind the river Halys, and left behind his that flows hard by, and the delta-land of Assyria; and on the same day they rounded the distant headland of the Amazons that guards their harbour.
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966-1001) Here once when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had, gone forth, the hero Heracles caught her by ambuscade and Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister's ransom, and he sent away his captive unharmed.

In the bay of this headland, at the outfall of Thermodon, they ran ashore, for the sea was rough for their voyage.

No river is like this, and none sends forth from itself such mighty streams over the land.

If a man should count every one he would lack but four of a hundred, but the real spring is only one.