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Matt Zoller Seitz on Jason and the Argonauts.

Greek Anthology VII, 744; Loeb II, p. 394
Diogenes Laertius

"They say the astronomer Eudoxus, teaching in Memphis
The eternal lives of the spheres, learned his own fate from Apis
The young bull who between his golden horns bore the full moon.
Not that Nature suddenly gave this beast the power to speak
But standing slant on, he put out his feeling tongue
And licked and licked at the travelling scholar’s cloak.
Which was his way of telling him, Thinker, you are on the wane.
Lover of the earth and the heavens, you don’t have long."

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"And leaped from a goat-abandoned rock into the sea..."