And with many a gift shall ye reach home this very day, if ye will gladden me with this desire of mine.

For Argus pleads with me, also Chalciope herself; but this that ye hear from me keep silently in your hearts, lest the tale reach my father's ears.

As for yon stranger who took on him the task with the oxen, they bid me receive his gifts and rescue him from the deadly contest.

And I approved their counsel, and I have summoned him to come to my presence apart from his comrades, so that we may divide the gifts among ourselves if he bring them in his hands, and in return may give him a baleful charm.

But when he comes, do ye stand aloof." [Footnote 1: Or, reading [Greek: menim], "took no heed of the cause of wrath with the stranger-folk"] So she spake, and the crafty counsel pleased them all.