Cyzicus
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1
Cyzicus Eusori filius rex in insula Propontidis Argonautas hospitio liberali excepit; qui cum ab eo discessissent totumque diem nauigassent, nocte tempestate orta ad eandem insulam ignari delati sunt.
Cyzicus, son of Eusorus, king on an island of the Propontis, received the Argonauts with generous hospitality; when they had left him and sailed for a whole day, a storm arose at night and they were carried back to the same island unawares.
2
quos Cyzicus hostes Pelasgicos arbitrans esse, cum eis noctu in litore arma contulit, et ab Iasone est interfectus; quod postero die cum prope litus appropinquasset et uidisset se regem interfecisse, sepulturae eum tradidit atque filiis regnum tradidit.
Cyzicus, thinking them to be Pelasgian enemies, fought them at night on the shore, and was killed by Jason; on the next day, when Jason came near the shore and saw that he had killed the king, he gave him burial and handed over the kingdom to Cyzicus's sons.
Notes
- Paragraph 2: the subject of appropinquasset / uidisset is Jason, supplied in the translation; “his sons” are Cyzicus's sons.
- Edition check, still open: this Latin text has not yet been checked against a printed critical edition; the points above were checked against the Packhum online text.
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