71.1Rēx Aeētēs ubi Iāsonem labōrem prōpositum cōnfēcisse cognōvit, īrā graviter commōtus est; id enim per dolum factum esse intellegēbat; nec dubitābat quīn Mēdēa eī auxilium tulisset.When king Aeetes learned that Jason had completed the labor that had been set, he was violently stirred with anger; for he understood that it had been done by a trick, and he had no doubt that Medea had brought him help. 71.2Mēdēa autem cum intellegeret sē in magnō fore perīculō sī in rēgiā manēret, fugā salūtem petere cōnstituit.But Medea, since she understood that she would be in great danger if she stayed in the palace, decided to seek safety in flight.Note. fore: another form of futūrum esse. 71.3Omnibus rēbus igitur ad fugam parātīs mediā nocte īnsciente patre cum frātre Absyrtō ēvāsit, et quam celerrimē ad locum ubi Argō subducta erat sē contulit.So, when everything had been made ready for flight, in the middle of the night, without her father's knowledge, she slipped away with her brother Absyrtus and went as quickly as possible to the place where the Argo had been drawn up on shore.
71.4Eō cum vēnisset, ad pedēs Iāsonis sē prōiēcit, et multīs cum lacrimīs eum obsecrāvit nē in tantō discrīmine mulierem dēsereret quae eī tantum prōfuisset.When she had come there, she threw herself at Jason's feet and with many tears begged him not to desert, in so great a crisis, the woman who had helped him so much.Note. obsecrāvit nē … dēsereret: an indirect command, 'begged him not to desert'. 71.5Ille quod memoriā tenēbat sē per eius auxilium ē magnō perīculō ēvāsisse, libenter eam excēpit, et postquam causam veniendī audīvit, hortātus est nē patris īram timēret.He, because he remembered that he had escaped from great danger through her help, gladly received her, and after he heard why she had come, he urged her not to fear her father's anger. 71.6Prōmīsit autem sē quam prīmum eam in nāvī suā āvectūrum.And he promised that he would carry her off in his ship as soon as possible.