PROMETHEUS BOUND
A way that goeth South, and thou shalt reach
The woman-people arm'd, the Amazons,
That loathe the face of men,—those that one day
Shall overspread Themiskyra, about
Thermodon, where is Salmydessos, thrust
Seaward, a rugged jaw, to mariners
A wicked host, to ships a stepmother:—
These of good will shall bear thee on thy way.
And journeying thou shalt find the neck men call
Kimmerian, at the entry of the Pool,
The narrow gates: there then make stout thy reins 730
Even to take leave of land and pass clean over
The strait Meotic. Know of that thy passage
Shall be great speech among all peoples of men
For ever; and the place shall get a name
Memorial, Bosporos. So shalt thou tread
Europe no more, but thence the continent
Asia.
Look now, and tell me whether to you
He seems, this tyrant of the gods, a nature
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