“At one moment both of them were staring at the ground in deep embarrassment; at the next they were smiling and glancing at each other with the love-light in their eyes.”

—  Apollonius of Rhodes, book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1022–1024

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