Aeetes

What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?

\" These ills, O most foolish Aeëtes, you yourself added to yourself;

Will the setting forth and the thought of this kind of life be able to relieve Thyestes, or Aeëtes, of whom I spoke a little before, or Telamon, driven from his country, an exile and in want?

Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, the Colchian, first devised the dyeing of hair.

) Please call Aeetes of Ceiriadae.

To prove that this statement is true, I will bring before you as a witness to these facts the man himself who was polemarch at the time.

Aeetes of Ceiriadae deposes that while he was polemarch, Neaera, the present defendant, was required by Phrynion, the brother of Demochares, to post bonds, and that the sureties of Neaera were Stephanus of Eroeadae, Glaucetes of Cephisia, and Aristocrates of Phalerum.

And Aeetes, the son of Helios who shows light to men, took to wife fair-cheeked Idyia, daughter of Ocean the perfect stream, by the will of the gods:

And the son of Aeson by the will of the gods led away from Aeetes the daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured king, when he had finished the many grievous labours which the great king, overbearing Pelias, that outrageous and presumptuous doer of violence, put upon him.

But at once the marvellous son of Helios spoke of the shining fleece, telling where the sword of Phrixus had stretched it out.

But when Aeetes placed in their midst the adamantine plough and the oxen, who breathed the flame of burning fire from their golden jaws and stamped at the earth in turn with their bronze hoofs, he led them along and single-handedly brought them under the yoke.

Their king, as it chanced, was a grandson of Aeetes.