Ian sea. For a certain island is enclosed by Ister, by name Peuce,
three-cornered, its base stretching along the coast, and with a sharp
angle towards the river; and round it the outfall is cleft in two. One
mouth they call the mouth of Narex, and the other, at the lower end, the
Fair mouth. And through this Apsyrtus and his Colchians rushed with all
speed; but the heroes went upwards far away towards the highest part of
the island. And in the meadows the country shepherds left their
countless flocks for dread of the ships, for they deemed that they were
beasts coming forth from the monster-teeming sea. For never yet before
had they seen seafaring ships, neither the Scythians mingled with the
Thracians, nor the Sigynni, nor yet the Graucenii, nor the Sindi that
now inhabit the vast desert plain of Laurium. But when they had passed
near the mount Angurum, and the cliff of Cauliacus, far from the mount
Angurum, round which Ister, dividing his stream, falls into the sea on
this side and on that, and the Laurian plain, then indeed the Colchians
went forth into the Cronian sea and cut off all the ways, to prevent
their foes' escape. And the heroes came down the river behind and
reached the two Brygean isles of Artemis near at hand. Now in one of
them was a sacred temple; and on the other
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