“Fruitlessly doth he groan, beholding the face of the Colchian maid; then over all the mountain pain contracts his limbs, and all his fetters shake beneath her sickle.”

—  Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 368–370

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