“But the serpent with his sharp unsleeping eyes had seen them coming and now confronted them, stretching out his long neck and hissing terribly.”

— Apollonius of Rhodes , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 127–129

Original

Αὐτὰρ ὁ ἀντικρὺ περιμήκεα τείνετο δειρὴν ὀξὺς ἀύπνοισιν προϊδὼν ὄφις ὀφθαλμοῖσιν νισσομένους, ῥοίζει δὲ πελώριον.

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