When the spirited youth heard this, he said, “I have no fault to find with the road: I will mount it, it is worthwhile to go through these places, even though one fall.” His father did not cease from trying to scare his brave spirit with terrors:⁠—

“Then, too, that thou may’st hold thy course aright,

And neither turn aside to left nor right,

Straight through the Bull’s fell horns thy path must go,

Through the fierce Lion, and the Archer’s bow.”