She is as deaf to the advice of her friends as a stone or a wave of the sea: Wasting away in tears all the time ever since she learned that she was wronged by her husband, neither lifting her face nor taking her eyes from the ground. She lies fasting, giving her body up to pain, Poor Medea, finding herself thus cast aside, calls loudly on his oaths, invokes the mighty assurance of his sworn right hand, and calls the gods to witness the unjust return she is getting from Jason. For Jason, abandoning his own children and my mistress, is bedding down in a royal match, having married the daughter of Creon, ruler of this land. When a woman is not at variance with her husband.īut now all is enmity, and love's bonds are diseased. This it is that most rescues life from trouble, Their father and hence now be inhabiting this land of Corinth, 2 with her husband and children, an exile loved by the citizens to whose land she had come, and lending to Jason himself all her support. Of the heroes who at Pelias' command set forth in quest of the Golden Fleece! For then my lady Medea would not have sailed to the towers of Iolcus, her heart smitten with love for Jason, or persuaded the daughters of Pelias to kill Would that the Argo had never winged its way to the land of Colchis through the dark-blue Symplegades! 1 Would that the pine trees had never been felled in the glens of Mount Pelion and furnished oars for the hands

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