daughter of Aeetes, the enchantress, and charm her with love for Jason.
And I deem that by her device he will bring back the fleece to Hellas."

Thus she spake, and the prudent plan pleased Athena, and she addressed
her in reply with gentle words:

"Hera, my father begat me to be a stranger to the darts of love, nor do
I know any charm to work desire. But if the word pleases thee, surely I
will follow; but thou must speak when we meet her."

So she said, and starting forth they came to the mighty palace of
Cypris, which her husband, the halt-footed god, had built for her when
first he brought her from Zeus to be his wife. And entering the court
they stood beneath the gallery of the chamber where the goddess prepared
the couch of Hephaestus. But he had gone early to his forge and anvils
to a broad cavern in a floating island where with the blast of flame he
wrought all manner of curious work; and she all alone was sitting
within, on an inlaid seat facing the door. And her white shoulders on
each side were covered with the mantle of her hair and she was parting
it with a golden comb and about to braid up the long tresses; but when
she saw the goddesses before her, she stayed and called them within, and
rose from her seat and placed them on couches. Then she herself sat
down, and with her hands gathered up the locks still uncombed. And
smiling she addressed them with crafty words:

"Good friends, what intent, what occasion brings you here after so long?
Why have ye come, not too frequent visitors before, chief among
goddesses that ye are?"

And to her Hera replied: "Thou dost mock us, but our hearts are stirred