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64 Literal Translation.
their vessel on land and go to have speech of the king Peleas
who had set them to the embassage, and they tell their tidings
and their adventures from beginning to end; and the fleece
was displayed unto him. Peleas gave thanks to Jason and to
Hercules and to the crew besides. He bestowed treasures and
riches on every one according to his rank, and so forth. x
27. Mindful, now, was the hero and the war-soldier and
the battle -breacher of a hundred, — the mightiest that hath
come of Adam's seed, to wit, Hercules son of Amphitryon, —
of the disgrace and of the shame that had been brought upon
him by Laomedon, king of the Trojans, to wit, the not giving
him the hospitality of a harbour when he was sent along with
Jason to seek the golden fleece. Heavy was his heart after
this not to avenge himself on the folk that abode in the
neighbourhood of Greece, on the eastern border of Propontis,
in the east of Asia Minor, (and) that had got a little strip
of land in the western angle of Phrygia, overagainst the shore
of the Tyrrhene sea. For of the world's warrior -hosts there
was none that attained to equality with him. No warrior was
there here, who would go further than he to avenge his wrong
in far-off, neighbouring territories.
Now here are some of his valiant deeds. 2
38. It is he, Hercules, that slew the mighty champion
with the three heads, in the isle Erythria, in the estuary of
the Tyrrhene sea, at the mere of Europe and Africa, right in
the west of the world, Geryon, to wit, his name: he withered
up the tribes and the races.
42. It is he, Hercules, moreover, that built the two pillars
at the Gaditanian Strait, and each of them looking at the
other, namely, the pillar of Europe looking at Africa and the
pillar of Africa looking at Europe.
45. It is he, moreover, that set his hand to the rock, if
perchance he might attain to slaying Cacus son of Vulcan, who
] Here a scribe's note: Mailechlann (has written) that little.
2 Tli is sentence is prefixed by L.