“Wilt thou pursue," she said, "or submit to aught that is shameful, when thou hast so many means of death and quick escape from a deed so wicked?”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 331–333

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Roman poet and writer 45–95

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