“Hereupon Juno and Pallas leap sheer down from the sky upon the rocks; this one the daughter of Jove, that one his spouse constrains.”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 682–684

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Hic Iuno praecepsque ex aethere Pallas insiliunt pariter scopulos: hunc nata coercet, hunc coniunx Iovis.

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