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  • Father and home of my free will I left and came with the to Iolcos, 'neath Pelion's hills, for my love was stronger than my prudence.

    Medea 2008

  • Since I have here withdrawn from Iolcos with many a hopeless trouble at my back, what happier device could I, an exile, frame than marriage with the daughter of the king?

    Medea 2008

  • Father and home of my free will I left and came with the to Iolcos, 'neath Pelion's hills, for my love was stronger than my prudence.

    Medea 2008

  • Since I have here withdrawn from Iolcos with many a hopeless trouble at my back, what happier device could I, an exile, frame than marriage with the daughter of the king?

    Medea 2008

  • And for them the son of Oeagrus touched his lyre and sang in rhythmical song of Artemis, saviour of ships, child of a glorious sire, who hath in her keeping those peaks by the sea, and the land of Iolcos; and the fishes came darting through the deep sea, great mixed with small, and followed gambolling along the watery paths.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Iolcos [18] with thee, with more readiness than prudence.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But Cheiron sighed and said, "You have many a danger to go through before you rule in Iolcos by the sea, many a danger and many a woe, and strange troubles in strange lands, such as man never saw before."

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • Now Phrixus had a cousin called Æson, who was King in Iolcos by the sea.

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • And for them the son of Oeagrus touched his lyre and sang in rhythmical song of Artemis, saviour of ships, child of a glorious sire, who hath in her keeping those peaks by the sea, and the land of Iolcos; and the fishes came darting through the deep sea, great mixed with small, and followed gambolling along the watery paths.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • [18] Iolcos was a city of Thessaly, distant about seven stadii from the sea, where the parents of Jason lived: Pelion was both a mountain and city of Thessaly, close to Iolcos; whence Iolcos is called Peliotic.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

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