. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ng to the island; she spoke to the maidens sothat they shrank away; then the beasts came and whimperedaround her. Forbear to land here, 0 Argonauts, Medeacried, for this is the island where men are changed into called to Jason to come; only Jason would she have comeupon the island. They went swiftly toward the marble house, and the beastsfollowed them, looking up at Jason and Medea with pitifulhuman eyes. They went into the marble house of Circe, andas suppliants they seated themselves at the hearth. Circe stood at her lo
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. ng to the island; she spoke to the maidens sothat they shrank away; then the beasts came and whimperedaround her. Forbear to land here, 0 Argonauts, Medeacried, for this is the island where men are changed into called to Jason to come; only Jason would she have comeupon the island. They went swiftly toward the marble house, and the beastsfollowed them, looking up at Jason and Medea with pitifulhuman eyes. They went into the marble house of Circe, andas suppliants they seated themselves at the hearth. Circe stood at her loom, weaving her many-colored she turned to the suppliants; she looked for somethingstrange in them, for just before they came the walls of herhouse dripped with blood and the flame ran over and into herpot, burning up all the magic herbs she was brewing. She wenttoward where they sat, Medea with her face hidden by herhands, and Jason, with his head bent, holding with its point inthe ground the sword with which he had slain the son of ^ THE RETURN TO GREECE 141 When Medea took her hands away from before her face,Circe knew that, like herself, this maiden was of the race ofHelios. Medea spoke to her, telling her first of the voyage ofthe heroes and of their toils; telling her then of how she hadgiven help to Jason against the will of ^Eetes, her father; tellingher then, fearfully, of the slaying of Apsyrtus. She covered herface with her robe as she spoke of it. And then she told Circeshe had come, warned by the judgment of Zeus, to ask ofCirce, the daughter of Helios, to purify her from the stain ofher brothers blood. Like all the children of Helios, Circe had eyes that werewide and full of life, but she had stony lips — lips that wereheavy and moveless. Bright golden hair hung smoothly alongeach of her sides. First she held a cup to them that was filledwith pure water, and Jason and Medea drank from that cup. Then Circe stayed by the hearth; she burnt ca
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