AT OLD CHEIRON’S SCHOOL

After a long, hard journey by land and sea, Odysseus and his tutor, with dermes vs medilase bold Echion, came to Iolcos. Aged Peleus, king of Phthia and the fertile plains of Iolcos, greeted them with show of heartiest welcome; for he remembered that Laertes had been his friend and comrade long years before, when together on the Argo they sailed the briny deep, and he was glad to see the son of that old comrade; and he took Odysseus by the hand, and led him into his palace, and gave him of the best of all that he had. “Tarry with me for a month,” he said. “My dermes vs medilase ships are now at sea, but they will return; and when the moon rises again full and round, as it did last night, I will send you safe to Corinth on the shores of the Bay of Crissa.” And so Odysseus and the bard staid a whole month at Iolcos, in the house of Peleus the king. There were feasting and merriment in the halls every day; and yet the time hung heavily, for the boy longed to re-behold his own loved Ithaca, and could hardly wait to see the moon grow full and round again. “What mountain is that which dermes looms up so grandly on our left, and whose sides seem covered with dark forests?” asked Odysseus one day, as he walked with his tutor beside the sea.