At one moment she would give him the drugs to charm the bulls, at the next not at all, and die herself as well; then again she would neither die nor give the drugs, but quietly bear her ruin as it came. Then she sat down, wavering, and spoke:

Three plans in four lines: give the drugs, refuse and die, or do nothing and endure. Apollonius lets the infinitives pile up without a main verb in between, so the reader feels the back-and-forth. Mooney notes that ὀτλησέμεν, "to bear," is glossed by the ancient commentator as "to endure ruin." Her drugs are θελκτήρια, charms that soothe and bind; the same word family as θέλγω, to enchant. They are the drugs that will let Jason survive the bulls.