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Often appears with: west wind departure · strategy and the aims of war · scylla and charybdis · orpheus with lyre · naval warfare and sea power
Usually: narrative (1) · wonder (1)
The Argonauts depart at dawn with the west wind, escape the Sirens at Anthemoessa by Orpheus’s music, and proceed as new ship-destroying dangers approach Scylla, Charybdis, and the Wandering rocks.
Thetis. And they broke off in the midst and hurriedly ceased their contests, and prepared their meal and earth-strewn beds, whereon after supper they slept through the night as aforetime. Now when dawn the light-bringer was touching the edge of heaven, then at the coming of the swift west wind they went to their thwarts from the land; and gladly did they draw up the anchors from the deep and made the tackling ready …