Medea

Indeed, men charge even their private passions to Fortune:

If a man knew such spells, learned from Medea or from the Thessalians, that by uttering them he could make whatever men he wished weep and suffer though no evil was present, would not his power be thought a tyranny?

How many things do you suppose Medea prayed to the gods on behalf of her children, or how often was she in anguish when they were sick, or how often would she have chosen to die in their stead?

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

"And I understand what evils I am about to do, but my anger is stronger than my counsels.

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.

what will you answer about Medea, who was begotten of two divine grandfathers, the Sun and Ocean, of Aeetes for her father and Idyia for her mother;

Medea and Atreus were just now mentioned by us, heroic persons plotting wicked crimes by reckoning taken and cast up.

And the same Medea, fleeing her father and her fatherland, when her father draws near and is already all but ready to seize her, meanwhile slays the boy and divides his limbs joint by joint, and scatters his body here and there over the fields;

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 …

Up, then, Medea, spare not the secrets of thy art in plotting and devising;

I heard the voice, uplifted loud, of our poor Colchian lady, nor yet is she quiet;

but when this proposal was made, the Trojans pleaded the seizure of Medea, and reminded the Greeks that they asked reparation from others, yet made none themselves, nor gave up the booty when asked.

and when they had done the business for which they came, they carried off the king's daughter Medea.

When the Colchian king sent a herald to demand reparation for the robbery and restitution of his daughter, the Greeks replied that, as they had been refused reparation for the abduction of the Argive Io, they would not make any to the Colchians.

‘For never would my erring mistress have set foot from her home—Medea, sick at heart, wounded by savage love’—†not as though those things furnished the cause of her love.

This love of Medea — what fires of miseries it kindled!

and she was subject to him in love through golden Aphrodite and bore him neat-ankled Medea.

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.

and becoming aware of this, he immediately managed things so that he became one of the messengers who went up to the king, and on coming there he seduced the king’s wife and with her aid set upon the king and slew him and possessed his kingdom.

Nor will anyone grant so much to magic that it should exempt from death, or re-dig life like a vine renewed in age.

Here, as the story goes, Medea, the king’s wife, took refuge at the time when the Medes were deprived of their empire by the Persians.