190-205) "No longer now, my friends, forbear to return to your fatherland.

For now the task for which we dared this grievous voyage, toiling with bitter sorrow of heart, has been lightly fulfilled by the maiden's counsels.

Her--for such is her will--I will bring home to be my wedded wife; do ye preserve her, the glorious saviour of all Achaea and of yourselves.

For of a surety, I ween, will Aeetes come with his host to bar our passage from the river into the sea.

But do some of you toil at the oars in turn, sitting man by man; and half of you raise your shields of oxhide, a ready defence against the darts of the enemy, and guard our return.