Chapter 12 Tales of the Argonauts-12

After hearing her sister's question, Medea blushed with embarrassment.She hesitated to speak, and finally love made her courage.She made a clever detour, and said tactfully: "Calciope, I feel sad because I am worried about your sons. I am afraid that my father will kill them and the strangers. A terrible dream gave me this. Premonition. I hope God will only bless you, and don't let the things in your dreams come true." Calciope was astonished. "It is for this that I have come to you," she said, "and I beg you to support them and against our father!" She took Medea's knees and laid her head on her bosom.Both sisters wept bitterly.At this time Medea said: "I swear to you by the sky and the earth: in order to save your son, as long as I can do it, I am willing to do it."

"Then," continued the sister, "for the sake of my child, you too should give the stranger some potion, that he might be lucky enough to save his life in that dreadful duel. My son Argos died in He asked me in his name, hoping to get your help." Medea's heart was beating violently with joy, her face was flushed, and she said involuntarily: "Calchiope, if I do not regard the preservation of your life and your son's life as my first concern Let me not live until tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I will go to the Temple of Hecate early in the morning and get the potion that subdues the divine bull to that stranger." Calciope left the house of his sister and hurriedly sent it to Argos This is welcome news.

All night, Medea fought fiercely with herself. "Am I promising too much?" she asked herself. "Do I need to expend so much energy for a stranger? Yes, I should save his life and let him go where his heart desires." However, the day of his success is the day of my death, when vicious rumors will attack me, saying that I will not hesitate to insult my family and die for a foreigner. How terrible are those rumors!" She She took out a small box from the room, which contained the revival medicine and the death medicine. She put the box on her lap, opened the lid, and was about to taste the taste of the death medicine, when she suddenly thought of the joy and sweetness of life.She felt that the sun also seemed more beautiful than before.Her heart was filled with the fear of death.Medea covered the box and set it on the ground.Then Hera, Jason's protector, changed her mind.She hardly waited until daybreak to fetch the promised potion and take it with her to her favorite hero.