cui non iusso tot adire voluptas monstra maris? cui Cyaneos intrare fragores? sceptra tui toto Pelias sub numine Phoebi maxima sorte tenens, totque ille prementia clivos oppida, tot vigili pulcherrima flumina cornu; ille meum imperiis urget caput, ille labores dat varios, suus ut magnum rex spargit ab Argis Alciden, Sthenelo ipse satus.
Whose pleasure were it, save he were bidden, to face so many monsters of the deep? or to sail into the thunders of the Cyanean Rocks? Pelias, who holds as his portion the mightiest of realms under all the sway of thine own Phoebus, so many towns that lie upon the hillsides, so many fairest streams with never idle horn, he it is lays his heavy ordinance on me, and sets me divers tasks, even as his own prince, himself the son of Sthenelus, sends great Alcides hither and thither from Argos.
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