Jason

And there was a contest of ships too, and the Argo won, and after that she did not sail, but Jason dedicated her here to Poseidon, and inscribed the epigram which they say is Orpheus':

They say that Jason, having anointed himself with a certain potion, which he got from Medea, suffered then nothing, I think, either from the dragon or from the bulls that breathed fire.

For, by this argument, the only ones likely to have become prudent are those who were born in Colchis from the dragon's teeth, which Jason sowed.

And from Dionysus to Heracles and the chiefs about Jason who sailed in the Argo, sixty-three years are reckoned together;

For Medea would not have slain her children had she not been angered, nor would she have been angered had she not been jealous, nor this, had she not loved, nor this, had not Jason sailed to Colchis, nor this, had not the Argo been built, nor this, had not the timbers been cut from Pelion.

for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of Iolcos, her soul with love for Jason smitten, nor would she have beguiled the daughters of Pelias to slay their father and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with J …

Yea, and I slew the dragon which guarded the golden fleece, keeping sleepless watch o’er it with many a wreathed coil, and I raised for thee a beacon of deliver arice.

As for the taunts thou urgest against my marriage with the princess, I will prove to thee, first, that I am prudent herein, next chastened in my love, and last a powerful friend to thee and to thy sons;

Many ships had come with wine from Lemnos, sent by Euneus the son of Jason, born to him by Hypsipyle.

Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroklos in ransom of Priam's son Lykaon, and Achilles now offered it as a prize [ athlon] in honor of his comrade to him who should be the swiftest runner.

When, accordingly, they had exchanged pledges with one another, the Pharsalians at once observed peace, and Jason was speedily established by common consent as Tagus of the Thessalians.

And I believe that this is the case, men of Lacedaemon, that if you send thither a force such as shall seem, not to me only, but also to the rest of the Thessalians, large enough to make war upon Jason, the cities will revolt from him;

Now you also, I am very sure, often hear the name of Jason spoken, for the man has great power and is famous.

For Deianira did not wish to harm Hercules when she gave him the tunic dyed with the Centaur's blood, nor did he who with the sword opened the abscess of Jason of Pherae, which the physicians could not cure, wish to benefit him.

\"You saved me for the sake of love rather than of honour.

In the month Maimacterion in the archonship of Asteius, Alcetas and Jason came to visit Timotheus to be present at his trial and give him their support, and they arrived at his house in Peiraeus in the Hippodameia when it was already evening.

while Timotheus himself, thanks to the intercession of all his friends and relatives, and also of Alcetas and Jason, who were allies of yours, you were reluctantly induced to pardon, but you deposed him from his command;

By chance the boy, not knowing that these bowls were the property of someone else, gave them to Aeschrion, the body-servant of the defendant, when he was sent to my father by Timotheus and requested the bedding and the cloaks and the bowls, and borrowed the mina of silver at the time when Alcetas and Jason came to the defendant’s house.

namely, that should any descendant of the Argo 's crew take away the tripod, then a hundred Greek cities would be founded on the shores of the Tritonian lake.

it is said that Jason, when the Argo had been built at the foot of Pelion, put aboard besides a hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi.

and before he saw land, he came into the shallows of the Tritonian lake.

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.

And she was subject to Iason, shepherd of the people, and bore a son Medeus whom Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains.

The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aietes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Hera piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.

for he kept talking as if he intended to cross over to the continent and make war upon the King.

Now since Jason by use of words alone advanced himself so far, what opinion must we expect the world will have of you if you actually do this thing;

And I for the sake of my friendship with Jason and Polyalces would gladly come to you;