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Quotation from The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
“Ruthless Love, great bane, great curse to mankind, from thee come deadly strifes and lamentations and groans, and countless pains as well have their stormy birth from thee.”
The Argonautica, Book IV, before the death of Apsyrtus, trans. R. C. Seaton (1912)
The narrator breaks into apostrophe as he turns to tell how Medea helped kill her brother.
Citation: "Ruthless Love, great bane, great curse to mankind, from thee come deadly strifes and lamentations and groans, and countless pains as well have their stormy birth from thee." — Apollonius of Rhodes, The Argonautica, Book IV, before the death of Apsyrtus, trans. R. C. Seaton (1912). (id argonautica-q5)
Portrait: Apollonius, This has been described as an illustration from "The Universal Historical Dictionary" by George Crabb (Baldwin, 1825)., Public domain.
