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At a later period, certain Greeks, with whose name they are
unacquainted, but who would probably be Cretans, made a landing at
Tyre, on the Phoenician coast, and bore off the king's daughter,
Europe. In this they only retaliated; but afterwards the Greeks,
they say, were guilty of a second violence. They manned a ship of
war, and sailed to Aea, a city of Colchis, on the river Phasis;
from whence, after despatching the rest of the business on which they
had come, they carried off Medea, the daughter of the king of the
land. The monarch sent a herald into Greece to demand reparation of
the wrong, and the restitution of his child; but the Greeks made
answer that, having received no reparation of the wrong done them in
the seizure of Io the Argive, they should give none in this instance.
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