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"Like Maias son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled The circuit wide."
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ArgonauticaΤὼ μὲν ἐπ᾽ ἀστραγάλοισι ποδῶν ἑκάτερθεν ἐρεμνὰς — Argonautica
"Τὼ μὲν ἐπ᾽ ἀστραγάλοισι ποδῶν ἑκάτερθεν ἐρεμνὰς σεῖον ἀειρομένω πτέρυγας, μέγα θάμβος ἰδέσθαι, χρυσείαις φολίδεσσι διαυγέας· ἀμφὶ δὲ νώτοις κράατος ἐξ ὑπάτοιο καὶ αὐχένος ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα κυάνεαι δονέοντο μετὰ πνοιῇσιν ἔθειραι."
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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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