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... give way to excessive grief at the death of their only daughter , who was named Timoxena after her Autobulus and Plutarch are especially spoken of as his sons , since the treatise on the Timacus of Plato is dedicated mother . to them ...
... give way to excessive grief at the death of their only daughter , who was named Timoxena after her Autobulus and Plutarch are especially spoken of as his sons , since the treatise on the Timacus of Plato is dedicated mother . to them ...
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... give and receive from him what they prized most dearly . But they say that Theseus slew Skeiron , not when he first went to Athens , but that afterwards ho took the town of Eleusis which belonged to the Megarians , by dealing ...
... give and receive from him what they prized most dearly . But they say that Theseus slew Skeiron , not when he first went to Athens , but that afterwards ho took the town of Eleusis which belonged to the Megarians , by dealing ...
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... give his father an opportunity of of the meat with it , and showed it to geus . Ageus looked calica at once recognised it , overset the cup of poison , closely at his son and embraced him . He then public meeting and made Theseus known ...
... give his father an opportunity of of the meat with it , and showed it to geus . Ageus looked calica at once recognised it , overset the cup of poison , closely at his son and embraced him . He then public meeting and made Theseus known ...
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... give up Daedalus to him , or else threatening that he would put to death the children whom Minos had taken as hostages , Theseus returned him a gentle answer , beg- ging for the life of Dadalus , who was his own cousin and blood ...
... give up Daedalus to him , or else threatening that he would put to death the children whom Minos had taken as hostages , Theseus returned him a gentle answer , beg- ging for the life of Dadalus , who was his own cousin and blood ...
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... gives an account peculiar to himself , that Theseus was driven by a storm to Cyprus , and that Ariadne , who was pregnant , suffered much from the motion of the ship , and became so ill , that she was set ship , and was blown off to sca ...
... gives an account peculiar to himself , that Theseus was driven by a storm to Cyprus , and that Ariadne , who was pregnant , suffered much from the motion of the ship , and became so ill , that she was set ship , and was blown off to sca ...
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