Editing Tiphys (section)

=== Pilot of Argo ===
Among his crew members, Tiphys was chosen to steer the long ship Argo.

==== Apollonius' account ====

: Tiphys, son of Hagnias, left the [[Siphae]]an people of the Thespians, well skilled to foretell the rising wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the time for sailing. [[Lake Tritonis|Tritonian]] [[Athena]] herself urged him to join the band of chiefs, and he came among them a welcome comrade.<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.105 ff. ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref>

==== Valerius' account ====
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|<blockquote>. . . Tiphys without fear trust to rule the vessel and to watch the heavens, when weary-eyed with ceaseless gazing on the bear.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 1.418–419 ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref></blockquote>
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|<blockquote>The watchful Tiphys, Hagnius’ son, hung his gaze upon the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadian]] constellation, favoured mortal, that found use for the laggard stars, and giving men power to steer their path across the sea with heaven as their guide.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 1.481–484 ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref></blockquote>
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|<blockquote>Tiphys is at the helm, and silently his helpers sit to do his bidding; even as by the throne of highest [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] all things are round about him alert and ready for the god, winds, showers, lightning, thunder, and rivers still in their springs.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 1.689–93 ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref></blockquote>
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==== Statius' account ====

: Tiphys himself wearies by his labours the heavy billows and the tiller that will not hear him, and pale with anxiety oft changes his commands, and turns right- and leftward from the land the prow that would fain dash itself to shipwreck on the rocks, until from the vessel's tapering bows the son of [[Aeson]] holds forth the olive-branch of Pallas hat [[Mopsus (Argonaut)|Mopsus]] bore, and through the tumult of his comrades would prevent him, asks for peace; his words were swept away by the headlong gale.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 5.412–421 ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref>

====''Orphic Argonautica''====

: He (Tiphys) left the Thespians to work on the waters of [[Teumessus|Teumessia]] near the mountain of poplars. He knew the painstaking art of discerning from the bellowing and flashing of storms when and how to guide the ship.<ref>''Orphic Argonautica'' 113 ff. ''{{PD-notice}}''</ref>