Book 1. Line 1012 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [1012] (1.1012-1076) But the heroes, when the contest was ended without fear, loosed the ship's hawsers to the breath of the wind and pressed on through the sea-swell. And the ship sped on under sail all day; but when night came the rushing wind did not hold steadfast, but...
Book 4. Line 922 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [922] (4.922-981) For on one side appeared the smooth rock of Scylla; on the other Charybdis ceaselessly spouted and roared; in another part the Wandering rocks were booming beneath the mighty surge, where before the burning flame spurted forth from the top of the crags, above...
Book 4. Line 627 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [627] (4.627-658) Thence they entered the deep stream of Rhodanus which flows into Eridanus; and where they meet there is a roar of mingling waters. Now that river, rising from the ends of the earth, where are the portals and mansions of Night, on one side bursts forth up...
Book 2. Line 1002 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [1002] (2.1002-1008) That folk have no care for ploughing with oxen or for any planting of honey-sweet fruit; nor yet do they pasture flocks in the dewy meadow. But they cleave the hard iron-bearing land and exchange their wages for daily sustenance; never does the morn rise...
Book 3. Line 1326 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [1326] (3.1326-1339) The bulls meantime raged exceedingly, breathing forth furious flame of fire; and their breath rose up like the roar of blustering winds, in fear of which above all seafaring men furl their large sail. But not long after that they moved on at the bidding...
Book 1. Line 1207 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [1207] (1.1207-1239) Meantime Hylas with pitcher of bronze in hand had gone apart from the throng, seeking the sacred flow of a fountain, that he might be quick in drawing water for the evening meal and actively make all things ready in due order against his lord's return...
Book 4. Line 833 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [833] (4.833-841) Thus she spake, and Thetis answered with these words: "If the fury of the ravening flame and the stormy winds cease in very deed, surely will I promise boldly to save the ship, even though the waves bar the way, if only the west wind blows fresh and clear. But...
Book 4. Line 1318 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1318] (4.1318-1329) "Ill-starred one, why art thou so smitten with despair? We know how ye went in quest of the golden fleece; we know each toil of yours, all the mighty deeds ye wrought in your wanderings over land and sea. We are the solitary ones, goddesses of the l...
Book 2. Line 1200 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [1200] (2.1200-1215) "My friends, our strength, so far as it avails, shall never cease to help you, not one whit, when need shall come. But Aeetes is terribly armed with deadly ruthlessness; wherefore exceedingly do I dread this voyage. And he boasts himself to be the s...
Book 4. Line 1502 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1502] (4.1502-1536) Thereupon on the same day a pitiless fate seized Mopsus too, son of Ampycus; and he escaped not a bitter doom by his prophesying; for there is no averting of death. Now there lay in the sand, avoiding the midday heat, a dread serpent, too sluggish of his own...
Book 1. Line 1103 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [1103] (1.1103-1152) Thus he spake, and his words were welcome to Jason's ear. And he arose from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades hurriedly and told them the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus. And quickly the younger men drove oxen from their stalls and beg...
Book 4. Line 1110 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1110] (4.1110-1120) Thus he spake, and at once sleep laid him to rest. And she stored up in her heart the word of wisdom, and straightway rose from her couch and went through the palace; and her handmaids came hasting together, eagerly tending their mistress. But quietly she...
Book 1. Line 1315 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [1315] (1.1315-1325) "Why against the counsel of mighty Zeus do ye purpose to lead bold Heracles to the city of Aeetes? At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment...
Book 4. Line 1014 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1014] (4.1014-1028) "I beseech thee, O queen, be gracious and deliver me not to the Colchians to be borne to my father, if thou thyself too art one of the race of mortals, whose heart rushes swiftly to ruin from light transgressions. For my firm sense forsook me -- it was not...
Book 1. Line 1 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 (1.1-4) Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece. 1 , , 2 , 3 4. (1.5-17) Such w...
Book 4. Line 1422 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1422] (4.1422-1431) So he spake, beseeching them with plaintive voice; and they from their station near pitied their pain; and lo! First of all they caused grass to spring from the earth; and above the grass rose up tall shoots, and then flourishing saplings grew standing...
Book 3. Line 1008 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [1008] (3.1008-1025) Thus he spake, honouring her; and she cast her eyes down with a smile divinely sweet; and her soul melted within her, uplifted by his praise, and she gazed upon him face to face; nor did she know what word to utter first, but was eager to pour out everything...
Book 2. Line 209 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [209] (2.209-239) "Listen, bravest of all the Hellenes, if it be truly ye, whom by a king's ruthless command Jason is leading on the ship Argo in quest of the fleece. It is ye truly. Even yet my soul by its divination knows everything. Thanks I render to thee, O king, son of Le...
Book 4. Line 109 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [109] (4.109-122) Now at the hour when men have cast sleep from their eyes~huntsmen, who, trusting to their bounds, never slumber away the end of night, but avoid the light of dawn lest, smiting with its white beams, it efface the track and scent of the quarry -- then did Aeson's...
Book 2. Line 301 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [301] (2.301-310) Meanwhile the chiefs carefully cleansed the old man's squalid skin and with due selection sacrificed sheep which they had borne away from the spoil of Amycus. And when they had laid a huge supper in the hall, they sat down and feasted, and with them feasted...
Book 4. Line 503 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [503] (4.503-506) Thus he spake; and the youths assented to the words of Aeacus' son. And quickly they entered the ship, and toiled at their oars unceasingly until they reached the sacred isle of Electra, the highest of them all, near the river Eridanus. 503 ':. 504 505 , ' , 506...
Book 3. Line 609 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [609] (3.609-615) Meantime Argus, going to Aeetes' palace, with manifold pleading besought his mother to pray Medea's aid; and Chalciope herself already had the same thoughts, but fear checked her soul lest haply either fate should withstand and she should entreat her in v...
Book 1. Line 609 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [609] (1.609-639) Here the whole of the men of the people together had been ruthlessly slain through the transgressions of the women in the year gone by. For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive maids whom they...
Book 4. Line 303 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [303] (4.303-337) Now some of the Colchians, in a vain search, passed out from Pontus through the Cyanean rocks; but the rest went to the river, and them Apsyrtus led, and, turning aside, he entered the mouth called Fair. Wherefore he outstripped the heroes by crossing a neck...
Book 2. Line 611 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [611] (2.611-618) "It is my hope that we have safely escaped this peril -- we, and the ship; and none other is the cause so much as Athena, who breathed into Argo divine strength when Argus knitted her together with bolts; and she may not be caught. Son of Aeson, no longer fear...
Book 3. Line 705 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [705] (3.705-710) Thus she spake, and straightway a torrent of tears gushed forth and low down she clasped her sister's knees with both hands and let her head sink on to her breast. Then they both made piteous lamentation over each other, and through the halls rose the faint...
Book 3. Line 1102 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [1102] (3.1102-1104) Thus he spake, soothing her with gentle converse. But pangs most bitter stirred her heart and in grief did she address him with vehement words: 1102 ,. 1103 ' , 1104 : (3.1105-1117) "In Hellas, I ween, this is fair to pay heed to covenants; but Aeetes is not...
Book 1. Line 105 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [105] (1.105-114) Tiphys, son of Hagnias, left the Siphaean 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. Tritonian Athena herself urged him to jo...
Book 2. Line 911 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [911] (2.911-929) Next they beheld the barrow of Sthenelus, Actor's son, who on his way back from the valorous war against the Amazons -- for he had been the comrade of Heracles -- was struck by an arrow and died there upon the sea-beach. And for a time they went no further...
Book 2. Line 811 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [811] (2.811-814) Thus all day long they revelled at the banquet. But at dawn they hied down to the ship in haste; and with them went Lycus himself, when he had given them countless gifts to bear away; and with them he sent forth his son from his home. 811 '. 812 : 813 ' , ' 814...
Book 3. Line 401 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [401] (3.401-421) "Stranger, why needest thou go through thy tale to the end? For if ye are in truth of heavenly race, or have come in no wise inferior to me, to win the goods of strangers, I will give thee the fleece to bear away, if thou dost wish, when I have tried thee...
Book 4. Line 1228 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1228] (4.1228-1250) Now had they left behind the gulf named after the Ambracians, now with sails wide spread the land of the Curetes, and next in order the narrow islands with the Echinades, and the land of Pelops was just descried; even then a baleful blast of the north wind...
Book 4. Line 718 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [718] (4.718-738) But when she had wrought all her task, then she raised them up and seated them on well polished seats, and herself sat near, face to face with them. And at once she asked them clearly of their business and their voyaging, and whence they had come to her l...
Book 2. Line 1123 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [1123] (2.1123-1133) "We beseech you, by Zeus the Beholder, whoever ye are, to be kindly and to help us in our need. For fierce tempests, falling on the sea, have shattered all the timbers of the crazy ship in which we were cleaving our path on business bent. Wherefore we entre...
Book 4. Line 206 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [206] (4.206-211) Thus he spake, and donned his armour of war; and they cried aloud, wondrously eager. And he drew his sword from the sheath and cut the hawsers at the stern. And near the maiden he took his stand ready armed by the steersman Aneaeus, and with their rowing...
Book 2. Line 714 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [714] (2.714-719) Now when they had celebrated him with dance and song they took an oath with holy libations, that they would ever help each other with concord of heart, touching the sacrifice as they swore; and even now there stands there a temple to gracious Concord, which...
Book 1. Line 512 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [512] (1.512-518) He ended, and stayed his lyre and divine voice. But though he had ceased they still bent forward with eagerness all hushed to quiet, with ears intent on the enchanting strain; such a charm of song had he left behind in their hearts. Not long after they mixed...
Book 3. Line 304 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [304] (3.304-316) "Sons of my daughter and of Phrixus, whom beyond all strangers I honoured in my halls, how have ye come returning back to Aea? Did some calamity cut short your escape in the midst? Ye did not listen when I set before you the boundless length of the way. For I...
Book 2. Line 145 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [145] (2.145-153) "Bethink ye what they would have done in their cowardice if haply some god had brought Heracles hither. Assuredly, if he had been here, no trial would there have been of fists, I ween, but when the king drew near to proclaim his rules, the club would have made...
Book 3. Line 912 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [912] (3.912-918) So she spake, and the crafty counsel pleased them all. And straightway Argus drew Aeson's son apart from his comrades as soon as he heard from his brothers that Medea had gone at daybreak to the holy shrine of Hecate, and led him over the plain; and with them...
Book 1. Line 700 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [700] (1.700-701) "If this purpose please you all, now will I even send a messenger to the ship." 700 " , 701." (1.702-707) She spake and addressed Iphinoe close at hand: "Go, Iphinoe, and beg yonder man, whoever it is that leads this array, to come to our land that I may tell...
Book 3. Line 100 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [100] (3.100-105) So she spake, and the goddesses smiled and looked at each other. But Cypris again spoke, vexed at heart: "To others my sorrows are a jest; nor ought I to tell them to all; I know them too well myself. But now, since this pleases you both, I will make the attempt...
Book 4. Line 410 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [410] (4.410-420) Thus he spake soothing her; and she uttered a deadly speech: "Take heed now. For when sorry deeds are done we must needs devise sorry counsel, since at first I was distraught by my error, and by heaven's will it was I wrought the accomplishment of evil desires...
Book 3. Line 802 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [802] (3.802-824) She spake, and brought a casket wherein lay many drugs, some for healing, others for killing, and placing it upon her knees she wept. And she drenched her bosom with ceaseless tears, which flowed in torrents as she sat, bitterly bewailing her own fate. And she...
Book 2. Line 408 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [408] (2.408-410) Thus he spake, and straightway fear seized them as they heard. And for a long while they were struck with silence; till at last the hero, son of Aeson, spake, sore dismayed at their evil plight: 407." 408 ' : '. 409 ' : ' 410 : (2.411-418) "O aged sire, now hast...
Book 2. Line 1 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 (2.1-10) Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men; for even for strangers he laid down an insulting ordinance, that none should depart till they...
Book 3. Line 210 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [210] (3.210-259) And as they went Hera with friendly thought spread a thick mist through the city, that they might fare to the palace of Aeetes unseen by the countless hosts of the Colchians. But soon when from the plain they came to the city and Aeetes' palace, then again Her...
Book 4. Line 1731 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1731] (4.1731-1740) But when they had loosed the hawsers thence in fair weather, then Euphemus bethought him of a dream of the night, reverencing the glorious son of Maia. For it seemed to him that the god-given clod of earth held in his palm close to his breast was being...
Book 3. Line 502 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [502] (3.502-514) Thus he spake; and to all the contest seemed one that none could accomplish, and long, quiet and silent, they looked at one another, bowed down with the calamity and their despair; but at last Peleus spake with courageous words among all the chiefs: "It is time...
Book 1. Line 202 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [202] (1.202-206) With him came Palaemonius, son of Olenian Lernus, of Lernus by repute, but his birth was from Hephaestus; and so he was crippled in his feet, but his bodily frame and his valour no one would dare to scorn. Wherefore he was numbered among all the chiefs, winning...
Book 2. Line 500 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2 [500] (2.500-527) Cyrene, the tale goes, once tended sheep along the marsh-meadow of Peneus among men of old time; for dear to her were maidenhood and a couch unstained. But, as she guarded her flock by the river, Apollo carried her off far from Haemonia and placed her among...
Book 1. Line 306 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [306] (1.306-316) He spake, and started forth to leave the house. And as Apollo goes forth from some fragrant shrine to divine Delos or Claros or Pytho or to broad Lyeia near the stream of Xanthus, in such beauty moved Jason through the throng of people; and a cry arose as they...
Book 1. Line 910 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [910] (1.910-921) He spake, and mounted the ship first of all; and so the rest of the chiefs followed, and, sitting in order, seized the oars; and Argus loosed for them the hawsers from under the sea-beaten rock. Whereupon they mightily smote the water with their long oars...
Book 1. Line 402 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [402] (1.402-410) Next, piling up shingle near the sea, they raised there an altar on the shore to Apollo, under the name of Actius and Embasius, and quickly spread above it logs of dried olive-wood. Meantime the herdsmen of Aeson's son had driven before them from the herd two...
Book 3. Line 1 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 (3.1-5) Come now, Erato, stand by my side, and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea. For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love-cares dost charm unwedded maidens; wherefore to thee too is attached a name that tells of love. 1...
Book 3. Line 1225 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3 [1225] (3.1225-1245) Then Aeetes arrayed his breast in the stiff corslet which Ares gave him when he had slain Phlegraean Mimas with his own hands; and upon his head he placed a golden helmet with four plumes, gleaming like the sun's round light when he first rises from Oce...
Book 1. Line 834 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1 [834] (1.834-835) She spoke, glozing over the murder that had been wrought upon the men; and Jason addressed her in answer: 834 , , 835 : (1.836-841) "Hypsipyle, very dear to our hearts is the help we shall meet with, which thou grantest to us who need thee. And I will return...
Book 4. Line 1 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 (4.1-5) Now do thou thyself, goddess Muse, daughter of Zeus, tell of the labour and wiles of the Colchian maiden. Surely my soul within me wavers with speechless amazement as I ponder whether I should call it the lovesick grief of mad passion or a panic flight, through which she...
Book 4. Line 1601 : ARGONAUTICA BOOK 4 [1601] (4.1601-1637) He spake, and cut the victim's throat over the water and cast it from the stern. And the god rose up from the depths in form such as he really was. And as when a man trains a swift steed for the broad race-course, and runs along, grasping the bushy mane...