145-150) Thus she spake, and welcome were her words to the listening boy.

And he threw down all his toys, and eagerly seizing her robe on this side and on that, clung to the goddess.

And he implored her to bestow the gift at once; but she, facing him with kindly words, touched his cheeks, kissed him and drew him to her, and replied with a smile: (ll.

151-153) "Be witness now thy dear head and mine, that surely I will give thee the gift and deceive thee not, if thou wilt strike with thy shaft Aeetes' daughter." (ll.

154-166) She spoke, and he gathered up his dice, and having well counted them all threw them into his mother's gleaming lap.