(4.1073-1095) "Yea, my friend, come, save the woe-stricken maid from the Colchians and show grace to the Minyae. Argos is near our isle and the men of Haemonia; but Aeetes dwells not near, nor do we know of Aeetes one whit: we hear but his name; but this maiden of dread suffering hath broken my heart by her prayers. O king, give her not up to the Colchians to be borne back to her father's home. She was distraught when first she gave him the drugs to charm the oxen; and next, to cure one ill by another, as in our sinning we do often, she fled from her haughty sire's heavy wrath. But Jason, as I hear, is bound to her by mighty oaths that he will make her his wedded wife within his halls. Wherefore, my friend, make not, of thy will, Aeson's son to be forsworn, nor let the father, if thou canst help, work with angry heart some intolerable mischief on his child. For fathers are all too jealous against their children; what wrong did Nycteus devise against Antiope, fair of face! What woes did Danae endure on the wide sea through her sire's mad rage! Of late, and not far away, Echetus in wanton cruelty thrust spikes of bronze in his daughter's eyes; and by a grievous fate is she wasting away, grinding grains of bronze in a dungeon's gloom."
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1073 "Ναὶ φίλος, εἰ δ' ἄγε μοι πολυκηδέα ῥύεο Κόλχων
1074 παρθενικήν, Μινύῃσι φέρων χάριν. ἐγγύθι δ' Ἄργος
1075 ἡμετέρης νήσοιο καὶ ἀνέρες Αἱμονιῆες:
1076 Αἰήτης δ' οὔτ' ἂρ ναίει σχεδόν, οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν
1077 Αἰήτην, ἀλλ' οἶον ἀκούομεν: ἥδε δὲ κούρη
1078 αἰνοπαθὴς κατά μοι νόον ἔκλασεν ἀντιόωσα.
1079 μή μιν, ἄναξ, Κόλχοισι πόροις ἐς πατρὸς ἄγεσθαι.
1080 ἀάσθη, ὅτε πρῶτα βοῶν θελκτήρια δῶκεν
1081 φάρμακά οἱ: σχεδόθεν δὲ κακῷ κακόν, οἷά τε πολλὰ
1082 ῥέζομεν ἀμπλακίῃσιν, ἀκειομένη ὑπάλυξεν
1083 πατρὸς ὑπερφιάλοιο βαρὺν χόλον. αὐτὰρ Ἰήσων,
1084 ὡς ἀίω, μεγάλοισιν ἐνίσχεται ἐξ ἕθεν ὅρκοις,
1085 κουριδίην θήσεσθαι ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἄκοιτιν,
1086 τῶ, φίλε, μήτ' οὖν αὐτὸν ἑκὼν ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσαι
1087 θείης Αἰσονίδην, μήτ' ἄσχετα σεῖο ἕκητι
1088 παῖδα πατὴρ θυμῷ κεκοτηότι δηλήσαιτο.
1089 λίην γὰρ δύσζηλοι ἑαῖς ἐπὶ παισὶ τοκῆες:
1090 οἷα μὲν Ἀντιόπην εὐώπιδα μήσατο Νυκτεύς:
1091 οἷα δὲ καὶ Δανάη πόντῳ ἔνι πήματ' ἀνέτλη,
1092 πατρὸς ἀτασθαλίῃσι: νέον γε μέν, οὐδ' ἀποτηλοῦ,
1093 ὑβριστὴς Ἔχετος γλήναις ἔνι χάλκεα κέντρα
1094 πῆξε θυγατρὸς ἑῆς: στονόεντι δὲ κάρφεται οἴτῳ
1095 ὀρφναίῃ ἐνὶ χαλκὸν ἀλετρεύουσα καλιῇ."
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