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... Athens with them . IIe easily lifted the stone , but determined not to go to Athens by sea , bis mother and his grandfather implored him to go that the voyage was a safe and easy one , and though By land it was a difficult matter to ...
... Athens with them . IIe easily lifted the stone , but determined not to go to Athens by sea , bis mother and his grandfather implored him to go that the voyage was a safe and easy one , and though By land it was a difficult matter to ...
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... Athens from Peloponnesus was full of peril ; and Pittheus , by relating to Theseus who each of these evildoers was , and how they treated strangers , tried to prevail upon him to go by sca . But it appears that Theseus had for a long ...
... Athens from Peloponnesus was full of peril ; and Pittheus , by relating to Theseus who each of these evildoers was , and how they treated strangers , tried to prevail upon him to go by sca . But it appears that Theseus had for a long ...
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... Athenians that , if The most they propitiated Minos and came to terms with him , the anger of Heaven would cease and ... Athenian children . And Aristotle himself , in his treatise on the constitution of the Bottisans , evidently does ...
... Athenians that , if The most they propitiated Minos and came to terms with him , the anger of Heaven would cease and ... Athenian children . And Aristotle himself , in his treatise on the constitution of the Bottisans , evidently does ...
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... Athens . " Thus it seems to be a terrible thing to incur the hatred of a city powerful in speech and song ; for on ... Athenians should furnish a ship , and that tho youths should embark in it and sail with him , not carrying with them ...
... Athens . " Thus it seems to be a terrible thing to incur the hatred of a city powerful in speech and song ; for on ... Athenians should furnish a ship , and that tho youths should embark in it and sail with him , not carrying with them ...
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... Athens , Minos , contrary to the decree , pursued him in long war galleys , and being driven to Sicily by a storm , died thero . When his son Doukalion sent a warlike message to the Athenians , bidding them give up Daedalus to him , or ...
... Athens , Minos , contrary to the decree , pursued him in long war galleys , and being driven to Sicily by a storm , died thero . When his son Doukalion sent a warlike message to the Athenians , bidding them give up Daedalus to him , or ...
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