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Between the continents, still turning thee
To the untrodden fiery-gazing east, 815 (810)
[Keep that straight course. And then first wilt thou come
Against the northern blasts; where take good heed
Of the boisterous gusts, lest suddenly they snatch thee
And in their stormy whirlwinds hurl thee on.]
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Crossing the sea's loud surges, until next
Cisthene's Gorgoneian plain thou reach,
Where dwell the Phorkides, three hoary maids,
Swan-visaged, of one common eye possessed,
And single-toothed; whom never does the sun 820 (815)
Nor nightly moon look down on with its rays.
And near at hand their three winged sisters dwell,
The snake-tressed Gorgons, hateful to mankind:
Whom never mortal looks upon and lives.
Such then the caution which I give thee. Now
Hear of another grewsome sight; for ware 826 (821)
The griffins, Zeus's sharp-beaked silent hounds,
And the one-eyed host, the horsemen Arimaspi
Who dwell around the river running gold,
The stream of Pluto. Go not near to these. 830 (825)
