corripit optatum decus extremumque laborem Aesonides, longosque sibi gestata per annos Phrixeae monumenta fugae vix reddidit arbor cum gemitu tristesque super coiere tenebrae.
Jason snatches the longed-for prize and the final fruit of toil, and scarce did the tree give up the memorial of the flight of Phrixus, its yearlong burden, but it uttered a groan and gloomy darkness closed in upon it.
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