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Updated: June 18, 2025
But these Colchi are my guests, as you are; and for this month they have waited here with all their fleet, for they have hunted all the seas of Hellas, and could not find you, and dared neither go farther, nor go home. 'Let them choose out their champions, and we will fight them, man for man. 'No guests of ours shall fight upon our island, and if you go outside they will outnumber you.
Which, then, of the two is it safer to offend, the men near us, or the men far off?" The princes laughed, and praised his wisdom; and Alcinous called the heroes to the square, and the Colchi also; and they came and stood opposite each other; but Medeia stayed in the palace. Then Alcinous spoke: "Heroes of the Colchi, what is your errand about this lady?"
Come up with me to the palace of Alcinous, the rich sea-going king, and we will feast you well and heartily; and after that you shall tell us your name. But Medeia hung back, and trembled, and whispered in Jason's ear, 'We are betrayed, and are going to our ruin, for I see my countrymen among the crowd; dark-eyed Colchi in steel mail-shirts, such as they wear in my father's land.
Do you think that you can make her follow you, heroes of the Colchi? her, who knows all spells and charms? She will cast away your ships on quicksands, or call down on you Brimo the wild huntress; or the chains will fall from off her wrists, and she will escape in her dragon car; or if not thus, some other way; for she has a thousand plans and wiles.
The noblest grave, corporal! cried my uncle Toby, his eyes sparkling as he spoke, that a soldier could wish to lie down in. But a pitiful death for him! an' please your honour, replied the corporal. All this was as much Arabick to my father, as the rites of the Colchi and Troglodites had been before to my uncle Toby; my father could not determine whether he was to frown or to smile.
Nay, said he, mentioning the name of a different great nation upon every step as he set his foot upon it if the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Phoenicians, the Arabians, the Cappadocians, if the Colchi, and Troglodytes did it if Solon and Pythagoras submitted, what is Tristram? Who am I, that I should fret or fume one moment about the matter?
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