In gratitude for the kind reception he met with, Saturn endowed Janus with extraordinary prudence, with knowledge of future events, and with perpetual remembrance of the past. […] These were all invented by the Romans, and are not to be met with among the Grecian Deities. […] The treasure being represented as a ram having a golden fleece, and the difficulties they met with, as formidable monsters guarding it; which were overcome by Jason, through the magical aid of Medea, daughter of Aetes, king of Colchis, who fell in love with, and accompanied him to Greece.