“Then the Father from his starry citadel beholding these glorious deeds of the Greeks and how the mighty work went forward, is glad.”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 498–500

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Roman poet and writer 45–95

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