And he once welcomed noble Phrixus, a fugitive from his stepmother's wiles and the sacrifice prepared by his father.

For all men everywhere, even the most shameless, reverence the ordinance of Zeus, god of strangers, and regard it." (ll.

194-209) Thus he spake, and the youths approved the words of Aeson's son with one accord, nor was there one to counsel otherwise.
And then he summoned to go with him the sons of Phrixus, and Telamon and Augeias; and himself took Hermes' wand; and at once they passed forth from the ship beyond the reeds and the water to dry land, towards the rising ground of the plain.

The plain, I wis, is called Circe's; and here in line grow many willows and osiers, on whose topmost branches hang corpses bound with cords.

For even now it is an abomination with the Colchians to burn dead men with fire; nor is it lawful to place them in the earth and raise a mound above, but to wrap them in untanned oxhides and suspend them from trees far from the city.