catullus 1-40

Once pine trees sprung from Pelion's vortex
They say that they float through the clear, surging waves of Neptune
Through Phasidos river and the country Aeeteos,
When the chosen youth, the strongest of the adult population,
They choose the golden Colchis turn away skin
When the chosen young man, the strongest of Argive adult population,
Desiring to go away from the Colchis golden fleece
They dared to sail swiftly over salt seas with ships
One the flat, blue salt water with wooden oars
For the goddess who holds the fortresses of the city tops
She made a light wind for the flying chariot
Binding the bent wood into the framework
TheAmphitriten's first rough voyage
she sailed with her beak over the windy sea
and the waves were tortured by the oars and grew white with foam
they looked up from the foaming whirlpool of waves
and the Nereids admired the strange thing
the mortal eyes saw by no other light than the sea
with their eyes the naked nymphs
Then Pelius is said to have caught the fire of love with Thetis
Thetis did not look down upon human marriage
then the father himself knew that pelius must be married to thetis
oh heroes, you were born in the happiest of ages
of your good mothers, hail!
you, i often address you in song
and you are greatly blessed with a lucky marriage (pine) torch
and Oceanus, who circles the world with sea?
now when the awaited day was fulfilled