The Greek dragon that never sleeps is served twice, from both ends of the fleece’s story. In Apollodorus the fleece hangs at Colchis in a grove of Ares, “hanging on an oak and guarded by a sleepless dragon” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX]. The Golden Bough gives its arrival: the ram that saved Phrixus — “a ram with a fleece of gold opened his lips” and spoke with a man’s voice — was sacrificed, and the fleece given to the king, who “nailed it to an oak tree, guarded by a sleepless dragon” “in a sacred grove of Ares” [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXVI] — Frazer here retailing the tale told at the sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus, so the two pages are one Greek tradition served twice rather than independent witnesses. The motif’s point is defeated the only way it can be: not past the watch but through it — “Medea brought Jason by night to the fleece”, “having lulled to sleep by her drugs the dragon that guarded it” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX]. A guard that cannot sleep must be made to; sleeplessness names the difficulty and prescribes its solution. Thompson’s one row — Frazer’s Jason note — is resolved.