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But lo! the girl, like a frightened dove, that caught in the vast shadow of a hawk falls trembling on some man, no matter who he be, so doth she fling herself into his arms driven by strong fear. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
He spoke, and unaware that fate was driving him on the path of tardy expiation, gives his arms for this last time to his attendants to bind with harness. View quote
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So in the midnight shadows of the grove did they two meet and draw nigh each other, awe-struck, like silent first or motionless cypresses, when the mad South wind hath not yet intertwined their boughs. View quote
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Absyrtus in hot haste with his father's swift-assembled fleet draws nigh, and shakes a threatening torch at the escaping Greeks. View quote
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Wilt thou pursue," she said, "or submit to aught that is shameful, when thou hast so many means of death and quick escape from a deed so wicked? View quote
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For oft have the common people kindlier feelings. View quote
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Never, alas! can I elude them. View quote
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Through the hurrying rocks the brand with thin flame takes its flight. View quote
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Then the Father from his starry citadel beholding these glorious deeds of the Greeks and how the mighty work went forward, is glad. View quote
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And sought by lot those who should bear him company to the Scythian town, and from the whole number nine were drawn. View quote
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Then indeed, pierced by grief's bitterest pang, she clutched the hand of Jason and humbly besought him thus: "Remember me, I pray, for never, believe me, shall I be forgetful of thee. When thou art gone, tell me, I beg, on what quarter of the heaven must I gaze?" (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
The Latmian hunter rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon the Moon comes with veiled horns. View quote
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Often again she is resolved to promise her skill to the unhappy man, then again refuses, and is determined rather to perish with him; and she cries that never will she yield to so base a passion... View quote
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Are they heroes or mere dreamers? View quote
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And giving men power to steer their path across the sea with heaven as their guide. View quote
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Fruitlessly doth he groan, beholding the face of the Colchian maid; then over all the mountain pain contracts his limbs, and all his fetters shake beneath her sickle. View quote
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But Juno and the virgin daughter of supreme Jove were sharing heart to heart their inmost counsels and distracting cares. View quote
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Just as at first the South wind makes gentle sport as it softly stirs the leaves and topmost branches of the woodland, but soon the unlucky ships are feeling all its terrible strength. View quote
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Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, like to illumined cloud or to Iris when she ungirds her robe and glides to meet glowing Phoebus. View quote
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Hereupon Juno and Pallas leap sheer down from the sky upon the rocks; this one the daughter of Jove, that one his spouse constrains. View quote
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And takes forth a Caucasian herb, of potency sure beyond all others, sprung of the gore that dropped from the liver of Prometheus, and grass wind-nurtured, fostered and strengthened by that blood divine among snows and grisly frosts. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)
[Medea] looked toward the gates and found him still even as he went; and alas! as he departed still comelier seemed the stranger to the lovelorn girl: such shoulders, such frame doth he leave to her remembrance. View quote
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Even as the light that shifts and plays upon a lake, when Cynthia looks forth from heaven or the bright wheel of Phoebus in mid course passes by, so doth he shed a gleam upon the waters; he heeds not the shadow of the Nymph or her hair or the sound of her as she rises to embrace him. Greedily casting her arms about him, as he calls, alack! too late for help and utters the name of his mighty friend, she draws him down; for her strength is aided by his falling weight. View quote
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Her eyes brimful to the verge of weeping. View quote
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As they toil they are whirled round by a furious wave. View quote
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