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The Argonauts
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which we must hunt the whirlwinds over land and sea forever; and if we catch them they die, and if not, we die ourselves."

THE CHASE OF THE HARPIES

At that all the heroes wept; but the two young men sprang up, and aloft into the air after the Harpies, and the battle of the winds began.

The heroes trembled in silence as they heard the shrieking of the blasts; while the palace rocked and all the city, and great stones were torn from the crags, and the forest pines were hurled earthward, north and south and east and west, and the Bosphorus boiled