675This grief sent Pandion to the Tartarean shades before his day and before the final season of a long old age. 677Erechtheus takes the sceptre of the place and the governance of affairs, a man of whom it was doubtful whether he was mightier in justice or in strong arms. 679He had begotten four young men and as many of the female sex: but two were equal in beauty. 681Of these, Cephalus, grandson of Aeolus, was happy with you as his wife, Procris; 682Tereus and the Thracians stood in Boreas' way, and the god long went without his beloved Orithyia, while he entreats and prefers to use prayers rather than force.
685But when nothing is achieved by coaxing, bristling with anger, which is customary and all too familiar to that wind, 'And rightly so!' 687he said: 'for why have I abandoned my own weapons, savagery and strength and anger and threatening passions, and turned to prayers, whose use does not become me? 690Force suits me: by force I drive the gloomy clouds, by force I shake the seas and overturn knotty oaks and harden snows and pelt the lands with hail. 693I too, when I have met my brothers in the open sky (for that is my field), wrestle with such effort that the midst of the sky resounds with our clashes and fires leap out, struck from the hollow clouds.
697I too, when I have entered the vaulted hollows of the earth and fiercely set my back beneath the deepest caverns, trouble the ghosts and the whole world with tremors. 700With this help I ought to have sought marriage, and Erechtheus should not have been begged to be my father-in-law, but made one by force.' 702Saying these things, or things no weaker than these, Boreas shook out his wings: with their beating the whole earth was blasted and the wide sea shuddered. 705And trailing his dusty mantle over the highest peaks he sweeps the ground, and, hidden in darkness, the lover enfolds Orithyia, trembling with fear, in his tawny wings.
708As he flies, the fires, stirred up, burned more strongly. 709Nor did the ravisher check the reins of his airy course before he reached the peoples and walls of the Cicones. 711There the Athenian girl became both wife of the icy tyrant and mother, bringing forth twin offspring, who had the rest of their mother but the wings of their father. 714Yet they say these were not born together with their bodies, and, while the beard was absent beneath their reddish hair, Calais and Zetes were boys without feathers. 717Soon, together, wings began to encircle both their sides in the manner of birds, together their cheeks began to turn golden.
719So when boyhood gave way to youth, with the Minyans they sought the fleece radiant with its shining wool, over an unknown sea in the first ship.