[1301] And here an inner-court was built, and round it were many well-fitted doors and chambers here and there, and all along on each side was a richly-wrought gallery.

And on both sides loftier buildings stood obliquely.

In one, which was the loftiest, lordly Aeetes dwelt with his queen; and in another dwelt Apsyrtus, son of Aeetes, whom a Caucasian nymph, Asterodeia, bare before he made Eidyia his wedded wife, the youngest daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.

And the sons of the Colchians called him by the new name of Phaethon, [1302] because he outshone all the youths.

The other buildings the handmaidens had, and the two daughters of Aeetes, Chalciope and Medea.