“Meantime her sire was shuddering at the cruel news that reached his ear: the doom of his house, the mourning, his daughter's crafty flight.”

—  Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book VIII, Lines 134–136

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Interea patrias saevus venit horror ad aures fata domus luctumque ferens fraudemque fugamque virginis.

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