from Nerefine, and perhaps the bones of the young prince, interred
by Jafon, lie in fome obfcure place thereabout. The
ifland, as we have already l'een, had a new name from the af-
faffination and burial of Apfrtus, and was no longer called Bri-
geide, or the ifland o f Diana, but Apjirtts. And perhaps the
name o f Punta Sonta, a fmall promontory, near the place where
it is likely Apjirtus was alfaffinated, is derived from the fame
tradition, and pafling from lan'guage to language. It is not im-
poffible, that this point took its name of guilty from Jafon s
crime, as the Voltone Sceileroto at Verona did many ages after,
and as a gate, a ftreet, a field, or road, ufed to do among the
Romans for analogous reafons.
Having loft their leader, the men o f Colcbos durft not think of
returning to their own country, dreading the wrath of a cruel
king, now irritated by a triple offence. In the confufion caufed
by this misfortune, which the Argonauts announced by a fud-
den attack, ihewing that they were not ufed to -pay any regard
to a truce, or to make it with a fair intention, the Colchefians
knew not what refolution to take. The Theffalians took advantage
o f this perplexity, and, croffing the Adriatick, landed on an
ifland
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“ Th e youth fell at the door of the temple, and then perceived he had been
“ betrayed by his fitter whom he faw at fome diftance looking at him. He could
“ not fpeak ; but tearing open his wound with his hands, he filled them with
the blood that guthed out, and throwing it towards her, ftained her robe and
“ veil. T h e king of the gods turned his eyes another way, not to behold the
atrocious deed.”
lifland naan the ¡.-mouth* Aft the .Po. ¡From -.thence ¡'forward th e ir
¡voyage has no conneiUon-with the ifland of.Cherfo and OJero.
.When the.Colchefians were recovered;from their aftonilhment,
th e y refolved to- revenge, at all events, the death o f their murdered
young prince; and hence! they made the requifite difpofitions
for purfuing the Argonauts. But Juno, who, according to the
, cuftomof the ancient goddeffes, and which is-ftill kept up hy
,fome o f the modern, was a .declared protedtrefs o f whoever was iu
¡the wrong, made an unjuft ufe o f her powento agitate the air; and
Tent out every meteor that could retard or fruftrate the intention
o f a fea voyage.. It were to be wiihed, that all. the fabulous parts
o f ancient ftories.could be explained like this partiality of Juno,
w h i c h evidently means only a combination o f ftormy weather
unfit for.the navigation o f the Colchefians. They being afraid
¡of the refentmenfc o f the goddefs, laid afi'de their projeit altogeth
e r ; and. fettled,-in part, among thofe iflanders, whofe redti-
tude and hofpitalily they had already experienced; and part o f
them removed to th e neighbouring coaft o f Iftria; fome o f them
alfo fettled dn Dalmatia, and others -repaired to jEpyrus,* to
join the fquadron o f their countrymen, who hadilanded there,
and, fearing,theffury o f Eeta, had laid afide all thoughts o f returning
home.
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3i< Perhaps Jafon failed as; far ,as the coafts o f Italy, . as-there are frill to be feen
“ the veftiges and marks of the voyage of the Argonauts near the Ceraunian
■“ mountains on the.£hore of the Adriatick, in the bay. of Poffidonia.’ ’ T h e Ceraunian
mountains are thofe o f the Cimara, fo called by corruption, from the
hill Chimera,. zn ancient,volcano, from w-hich fo many,fables, took their, rife.