“Just as a vessel caught by the Pleiads on the foaming deep and kept safe only by its anxious helmsman’s care cleaves unharmed the sea that contending winds make boisterous, so Pollux warily watches the blows.”

—  Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 268–272

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