The heavenly dæmon of her sanctuary.
[249]Jason Æsonides, by heaven’s high will,
Bore from Æetes, foster-son of Jove,
His daughter: those afflictive toils achieved,
Which Pelias, mighty monarch, bold in wrong,
Unrighteous, violent of deed, imposed:
And much-enduring reach’d th’ Iolchian coast,
Wafting in winged bark the jet-eyed maid,
His blooming spouse. She yielding thus in love
To Jason, shepherd of his people, bare