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