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"They stood in silence, in their beauty: like two young trees of the plain, when the shower of spring is on their leaves, and the loud winds are laid."
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ArgonauticaΝῆα μὲν οὖν οἱ πρόσθεν ἔτι κλείουσιν ἀοιδοί — Argonautica
"Νῆα μὲν οὖν οἱ πρόσθεν ἔτι κλείουσιν ἀοιδοί Ἄργον Ἀθηναίης καμέειν ὑποθημοσύνῃσι."
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The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only entirely surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. Their heroic adventures and Jason's relationship with the Colchian princess/sorceress Medea were already well known to Hellenistic audiences,
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