B O O K I I

Nee vero ipse metus curasque resolvere ductor, sed maria
aspectans “heu qui datus iste deorum sorte labor nobis!”

Now verily did the leader himself forget all fears
and cares, but gazing on the seas, “Alas,” he cried,
“how hard a task is here set us by heaven’s will!”

Argonautica
Book IV, 703–705
Valerius Flaccus