May you bathe like Pelias

Explanation

this proverb came from what befell Pelias, whom his daughters set down into a boiling cauldron, deceived by Medea, supposing they would make him young, and so destroyed him by boiling. For Pelias reigned over Iolcus; consulting the god about his kingdom, he was warned to beware of "the man with one sandal." At first he did not understand the oracle, but later he did. For when he was making sacrifice to Poseidon, he summoned to it many others, and Jason among them. Jason, dwelling in the country, was hastening to the sacrifice; but crossing the river Anaurus, he came out one-sandalled, having lost the other shoe in the water. Pelias, seeing him and putting the oracle together, came up and asked him: "What would you do, if you had the power, were it foretold that you should be slain by some citizen?" Jason replied, "I would order him to bring me the Golden Fleece." Pelias, hearing this, at once ordered him to go after the Fleece. This was in Colchis, dedicated to Ares, guarded by an unsleeping dragon. Sent for it, Jason built a fifty-oared ship, the Argo, so named after Argus who fashioned it; and gathering the chiefs of Greece, he set sail. Coming to Colchis, he asked Aeëtes, who was king of the Colchian land, to give him the Fleece. When he refused the gift, Medea his daughter conceived a passion for Jason and promised to put the Fleece in his hand, if he would swear to have her as wife and take her with him to Greece. Jason swearing it, Medea brought him by night to the Fleece, and lulling the guarding dragon to sleep with drugs, came with Jason and the Fleece to the Argo. Her brother Apsyrtus also came with her. They put out by night with these on board. Aeëtes, learning what Medea had dared, set out to pursue the ship. Medea, seeing him near, killed her brother, cut him to pieces, and threw the pieces into the deep. Aeëtes, gathering up the boy's limbs, fell behind in the chase. Jason, returning to Iolcus, gave the Fleece to Pelias; and wishing to take vengeance for the wrongs done him, he begged Medea that Pelias might pay him satisfaction. She persuaded Pelias' daughters to boil their father, promising to make him young. To win their trust, she cut up a ram and boiled it, and produced a lamb. They believed her, threw their father into a boiling cauldron, and boiled him. Many others have bathed badly. Theogus boiled Magas, brother of Cocalus poured boiling pitch over Minos king of the Cretans. For Minos had shut up Daedalus with his son Icarus in the Labyrinth, because of the abomination he had wrought concerning Pasiphaë's love for the bull. Daedalus, fashioning wings for himself and his son, escaped the Labyrinth, and flew off with Icarus. Icarus, flying too high, when the wax was melted by the sun, his wings fell apart; and he fell into what was thereafter called the Icarian Sea, while Daedalus was saved. Minos pursued Daedalus, and going through every land carried with him a spiral shell, promising a great reward to anyone who could thread a string through it, thinking by this means to find Daedalus. Coming to Cocalus, with whom Daedalus was hidden, he showed the shell. Cocalus took it, undertook to thread it, and gave it to Daedalus; he, tying a thread to an ant and piercing the shell, let the ant pass through. Minos, taking the threaded string, perceived that Daedalus was with Cocalus, and at once demanded him. Cocalus, promising to give him up, entertained him; he, while bathing, was killed by Cocalus' daughters, who poured boiling pitch over him.