Gaius Valerius Flaccus quotes

Then once more comes deep grief to their hearts, when he comrades sat in their places and no lion's hide was there to see, but the empty seat upon that mighty thwart. Loyal Aeacides weeps, the heart of Philoctetes is sad, brother Pollux with his dear Castor makes lament. The ship is flying fast, and still all cry "Hercules," all cry "Hylas," but the names are lost in the middle of the sea. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
Meantime her sire was shuddering at the cruel news that reached his ear: the doom of his house, the mourning, his daughter's crafty flight. View quote
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Go now, go, but forget not the land that first folded you to its peaceful bosom; and from Colchis' conquered shores bring back hither thy sails, I pray thee, by this Jason whom thou leavest in my womb. View quote
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But Medea in her chamber, trembling and terror-struck now at what she has done, is encompassed by all her father's threatening rage. View quote
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Their words were spoken to the breezes nor swayed appointed fate. View quote
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[A cave] that trembled with the roaring of the deep. View quote
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Their fear deepened with the night as they beheld the face of the heavens turning and the mountains and all places rapt from view and all around thick darkness. The very stillness of Nature, the silent constellations in the heavens, the firmament starred with streaming meteors filled them with fear. And as a traveller by night overtaken in some unknown spot upon the road keeps ear and eye alert, while the darkening landscape to left and right and trees looming up with shadows strangely huge do but make heavier the terrors of night, even so the heroes quailed. View quote
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Away with scruple in adversity! View quote
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One who mocked Jove's ardent wooing, unmoved by heavenly suitors; not Halys only or Apollo were deceived by the trickery of the nymph they loved. View quote
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Idmon, Phoebus' son,... to him the Father gave by his ordinance the foreknowledge of omens divine, whether he inquired of flames or close-viewed entrails smooth, or of the air thick with fowls that cannot lie. View quote
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The whole landscape flashes while the hero now wraps about his body the fleece with its starry tufts of hair, now shifts it to his neck, now folds it upon his left arm. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
My song is of the straits first navigated by the mighty sons of gods, of the prophetic ship that dared to seek the shores of Scythian Phasis, that burst unswerving through the clashing rocks, to slink at length to rest in the starry firmament. View quote
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And now the high crest sinks, now the head is nodding overpowered and the huge neck has slipped from around the fleece it guarded, like refluent Po or Nile that sprawls in seven streams or Alpheus when his waters enter the Hesperian world. View quote
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The other, his brow heavy with threats, had long been muttering and smouldering with hidden fire. View quote
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Just as a vessel caught by the Pleiads on the foaming deep and kept safe only by its anxious helmsman's care cleaves unharmed the sea that contending winds make boisterous, so Pollux warily watches the blows. View quote
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Polyxo, the priestess beloved of Phoebus. View quote
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The hero withdrew and betook himself for a space to his companions, waiting. View quote
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No love have they for the slain king; swiftly they hie them to the mountains and the forests. View quote
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The spray falls in a rain and from afar shrouds the vessel in a watery deluge. View quote
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His bow, a light burden for glad shoulders, the boy Hylas bears. View quote
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But on her side the Colchian ceases not to foam with hellish poisons and to sprinkle all the silences of Lethe's bough: exerting her spells she constrains his reluctant eyes, exhausting all her Stygian power of hand and tongue. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
Not by hazard are ye come; divine fate, I ween, hath brought you to my shores. View quote
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She can find in her bewilderment no words wherewith to begin, how to order or where to end her speech; fain would she pour out all in her first utterance, but not even the first words doth fear-stricken shame allow her. View quote
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They ravage and sweep away my banquet, and befoul and upset the cups, there is a violent stench and a sorry battle arises, for the monsters are as famished as I. What all have scorned or polluted with their touch, or what has fallen from their filthy claws, helps me to linger thus among the living. View quote
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Thus much, Samothrace, has the poet proclaimed thee to the nations and the light of day; there stay, and let us keep our reverence for holy mysteries. View quote
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