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Quotation from The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
“So Talos, for all his frame of bronze, yielded the victory to the might of Medea the sorceress.”
The Argonautica, Book IV, Crete, trans. R. C. Seaton (1912)
Medea's evil eye and songs overcome the bronze guardian, who grazes his ankle on a rock and bleeds to death.
Citation: "So Talos, for all his frame of bronze, yielded the victory to the might of Medea the sorceress." — Apollonius of Rhodes, The Argonautica, Book IV, Crete, trans. R. C. Seaton (1912). (id argonautica-q6)
Portrait: Apollonius, This has been described as an illustration from "The Universal Historical Dictionary" by George Crabb (Baldwin, 1825)., Public domain.
