. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. remains fair, and herhair keeps its gold, and her lips are ever red and her eyes I think that the means that she has of keeping lovely areall in that jar that Epimetheus brought with her. When the woman who was thought to be wise said this,those around her were silent for a while. But then one aroseand another arose, and they stood and whispered together, onesaying to the other that they should go to the place where thejar had been left by Epimetheus, and that they should takeout of it the salves and the charms and the w
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. remains fair, and herhair keeps its gold, and her lips are ever red and her eyes I think that the means that she has of keeping lovely areall in that jar that Epimetheus brought with her. When the woman who was thought to be wise said this,those around her were silent for a while. But then one aroseand another arose, and they stood and whispered together, onesaying to the other that they should go to the place where thejar had been left by Epimetheus, and that they should takeout of it the salves and the charms and the washes that wouldleave them as beautiful as Pandora. So the women went to that place. On their way they stoppedat a pool and they bent over to see themselves mirrored in it,and they saw themselves with dusty and unkempt hair, withlarge and knotted hands, with troubled eyes, and with anxiousmouths. They frowned as they looked upon their images, andthey said in harsh voices that in a while they would have waysof making themselves as lovely as the Golden THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 89 And as they went on they saw Pandora. She was playingin a flowering field, while Epimetheus, high as a man upon stilts,went gathering the blossoms of the bushes for her. They wenton, and they came at last to the place where Epimetheus hadleft the jar that held Pandoras dower. A great stone jar it was; there was no bird, nor flower, norbranch painted upon it. It stood high as a womans as the women looked on it they thought that there werethings enough in it to keep them beautiful for all the days oftheir lives. But each one thought that she should not be thelast to get her hands into it. Once the lid had been fixed tightly down on the jar. Butthe lid was shifted a little now. As the hands of the womengrasped it to take off the lid the jar was cast down, and thethings that were inside spilled themselves forth. They were black and gray and red; they were crawling andflying things. And, as t
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