“Indeed your loveliness assures me of a kind and tender heart within.”

—  Apollonius of Rhodes , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1006–1007; Jason to Medea.

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Ἦ γὰρ ἔοικας ἐκ μορφῆς ἀγανῇσιν ἐπητείῃσι κεκάσθαι.

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