So Phrontis said, but the King was not placated by what he said. He thought that the sons of Chalciope had returned to Aea bringing these warriors with them so that they might wrest the kingship from him, or, failing that, plunder the city. Aeetes's heart was filled with wrath as he looked upon them, and his eyes shone as a leopard's eyes.
"Begone from my sight," he cried, "robbers that ye are! Tricksters! If you had not eaten at my table, assuredly I should have had your tongues cut out for speaking falsehoods about the blessed gods, saying that this one and that of your companions was of their divine race."
Telamon and Peleus strode forward with angry hearts; they would have laid their hands upon King Aeetes only Jason held them back. And then speaking to the king in a quiet voice, Jas
