et iam iam magico per opaca silentia Colchis coeperat ire sono, montanaque condere vultus numina cumque suis averti collibus amnes; iam stabulis gregibusque pavor strepitusque sepulcris inciderat; stupet ipsa gravi nox tardior umbra, iamque tremens longe sequitur Venus; utque sub altas pervenere trabes divaeque triformis in umbram, hic subito ante oculos nondum speratus Iason emicuit, viditque prior conterrita virgo; atque hinc se profugam volucri Thaumantias ala sustulit; inde Venus dextrae delapsa tenenti.
And now the Colchian began to move through the dark night with sound of magic spells, and the mountain fairies hid their faces and the rivers and their hills shrank away; already had panic fallen upon stall and fold, and there was tumult among the tombs; Night herself, aghast, wheels her dense shade more slowly, and now Venus affrighted follows far behind; and when they came to the tall trees and the shade of the triple goddess, suddenly before their eyes Jason, unexpected as yet, stepped quickly forth, and the terrified maid beheld him first; and on this side the Thaumantian rose on swift wings and fled, on that Venus slipped from the hand that grasped her.
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