740-743) Thus Chalciope went back from the chamber, and made known to her sons the help given by her sister.

And again did shame and hateful fear seize Medea thus left alone, that she should devise such deeds for a man in her father's despite.
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744-771) Then did night draw darkness over the earth; and on the sea sailors from their ships looked towards the Bear and the stars of Orion; and now the wayfarer and the warder longed for sleep, and the pall of slumber wrapped round the mother whose children were dead; nor was there any more the barking of dogs through the city, nor sound of men's voices; but silence held the blackening gloom.

But not indeed upon Medea came sweet sleep.

For in her love for Aeson's son many cares kept her wakeful, and she dreaded the mighty strength of the bulls, beneath whose fury he was like to perish by an unseemly fate in the field of Ares.