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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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ArgonauticaΤοίην γὰρ Πελίης φάτιν ἔκλυεν, ὥς μιν ὀπίσσω — Argonautica
"Τοίην γὰρ Πελίης φάτιν ἔκλυεν, ὥς μιν ὀπίσσω μοῖρα μένει στυγερή, τοῦδ ἀνέρος, ὅντιν ἴδοιτο δημόθεν οἰοπέδιλον, ὑπ ἐννεσίῃσι δαμῆναι. δηρὸν δ οὐ μετέπειτα τεὴν κατὰ βάξιν Ἰήσων χειμερίοιο ῥέεθρα κιὼν διὰ ποσσὶν Ἀναύρου ἄλλο μὲν ἐξεσάωσεν ὑπ ἰλύος, ἄλλο δ ἔνερθεν κάλλιπεν αὖθι πέδιλον ἐνισχόμενον προχοῇσιν."
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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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