when thou hast gone hence."

Thus she spake, and cast her eyes to her feet in silence, and her cheek,
divinely fair, was wet with warm tears as she sorrowed for that he was
about to wander far from her side over the wide sea: and once again she
addressed him face to face with mournful words, and took his right hand;
for now shame had left her eyes:

"Remember, if haply thou returnest to thy home, Medea's name; and so
will I remember thine, though thou be far away. And of thy kindness tell
me this, where is thy home, whither wilt thou sail hence in thy ship
over the sea; wilt thou come near wealthy Orchomenus, or near the Aeaean
isle? And tell me of the maiden, whosoever she be that thou hast named,
the far-renowned daughter of Pasiphae, who is kinswoman to my father."

Thus she spake; and over him too, at the tears of the maiden, stole Love
the destroyer, and he thus answered her:

"All too surely do I deem that never by night and never by day will I
forget thee if I escape death and indeed make my way in safety to the
Achaean land, and Aeetes set not before us some other contest worse than
this. And if it pleases thee to know about my fatherland, I will tell it
out; for indeed my own heart bids me do that. There is a land encircled
by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son
of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared
temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled Over men. This land the
neighbours who dwell around call Haemonia. And in it stands Iolcus, my
city, and in it many others, where they have not so much as heard the
name of the Aeaean isle; yet there is a story that Minyas starting
thence, Minyas son of Aeolus, built long ago the city of Orchomenus that