Apollonius of Rhodes - High Quotes

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How o'er the new-created world below,
On high Olympus' summits crown'd with snow
Ophion, and, from ocean sprung of old,
The fair Eurynome reign'd uncontroll'd:
How haughty Saturn, with superior sway,
Exil'd Ophion from the realms of day.

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With high-arch'd neck, in front the dragon lies,
And towards the strangers turns his sleepless eyes;
Aloud he hisses: the wide woods around,
And Phasis' banks return the doleful sound.
Colchians far distant from Titanus' shore,
Heard e'en to Lycus' streams the hideous roar.

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With Chiron came Chariclo to the shore;
The young Achilles in her arms she bore.
Peleus, his sire, with secret pleasure smil'd,
As high in air she rais'd the royal child.

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It chanc'd the nymphs, in neighbouring streams that dwell,
Then kept a concert at the sacred well.
In Dian's praise they rais'd the nightly song,
All who to high, aerial hills belong;
All who in caverns hide, or devious rove
The mountain-forest, or the shady grove.

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Where on an oak the fleece, suspended high,
A dragon guards with ever-watchful eye.

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On Argo's keel the impetuous torrent pours,
Which rais'd the ship above the rocks so high,
She seem'd sublimely sailing in the sky.

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Know, at Æeta'a court a maiden dwells
Deep skill'd by Hecate in magic spells:
All plants she knows that grow on mountains steep,
On vales, or meads, or in the boundless deep;
By these she quells the fire's relentless force,
Stops the mad torrent in its headlong course,
Retards the planets as they roll on high,
And draws the Moon reluctant from the sky.

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At Colchos still this barbarous rite prevails:
They never burn the bodies of the males,
Nor deep in earth their decent limbs compose,
And with sepulchral dust the dead enclose;
But in raw hides they hang them high in air:
And yet, that earth may equal portions share,
Departed females to the grave they doom,
(Such are their rites) and close them in the tomb.

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