55-75) And to her Hera replied: "Thou dost mock us, but our hearts are stirred with calamity.

For already on the river Phasis the son of Aeson moors his ship, he and his comrades in quest of the fleece.

For all their sakes we fear terribly (for the task is nigh at hand) but most for Aeson's son.

Him will I deliver, though he sail even to Hades to free Ixion below from his brazen chains, as far as strength lies in my limbs, so that Pelias may not mock at having escaped an evil doom--Pelias who left me unhonoured with sacrifice.

Moreover Jason was greatly loved by me before, ever since at the mouth of Anaurus in flood, as I was making trial of men's righteousness, he met me on his return from the chase; and all the mountains and long ridged peaks were sprinkled with snow, and from them the torrents rolling down were rushing with a roar.