quinquaginta Asiam (pudet heu!) penetrarit Iason exulibus? meque ante alios sic spreverit una, una ratis, spolium ut vivo de rege reportet? ipsum offerre, meos ipsum me pandere lucos imperet et nullo dignetur vincere bello? cur age non templis sacrata avellere dona omnibus atque ipsas gremiis abducere natas, praedo, libet? vobisne domos, vobisne parentes esse putem, ratis infandis quos sola rapinis saevaque pascit hiemps et quos, credamus ut ipsis, rex suus immisit pelago vetuitque reverti? scilicet Aeoliae pecudis poteretur ut auro? ante meus caesa descendet Caucasus umbra ac prior Haemonias repetet super aequora praedas.
Shall Jason with fifty outcasts (O shame!) win through to Asia? and shall one vessel, one! so slight me beyond all other men as to bear away spoils from a living prince? Shall he command me myself to offer, myself to throw open my own groves, nor even deign to conquer? Pirate, why hast thou not a fancy to ravish the sacred gifts from all our shrines, and our own daughters from our bosoms? Shall I think you have parents, you have homes, whom your ship alone supports with impious brigandage and savage tempests feed, you whom'to trust your own tale'your king has flung upon the waves and forbidden to return, that he may possess, forsooth, the gold of the Aeolian ram! Ere that shall my own Caucasus descend, its shadowy forests felled, and over the seas track out the Haemonian robbers
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