“No love have they for the slain king; swiftly they hie them to the mountains and the forests.”

—  Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 315–316

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Nullus adempti regis amor: montem celeres silvamque capessunt.

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