“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…”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    
                                    Saepe suas misero promittere destinat artes,
denegat atque una potius decernit in ira
ac neque tam turpi cessuram semet amori
proclamat.
                                
                            
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 317–320
 
        
     
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            