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And Aithra smiled and said, "Take, then, the sword and the sandals and go to thy father Ægeus, King of Athens, and say to him, 'The stone is lifted! Then show him the sword and the sandals, and take what the gods shall send." But Theseus wept, "Shall I leave you, O my mother?" She answered, "Weep not for me."
Then they went outside the sacred wall, and looked down over the bright blue sea; and Aithra said 'Do you see this land at our feet? And he said, 'Yes; this is Troezene, where I was born and bred. And she said, 'It is but a little land, barren and rocky, and looks towards the bleak north-east. Do you see that land beyond? 'Yes; that is Attica, where the Athenian people dwell.
She had one fair son, named Theseus, the bravest lad in all the land; and Aithra never smiled but when she looked at him, for her husband had forgotten her, and lived far away. And she used to go up to the mountain above Troezene, to the temple of Poseidon and sit there all day looking out across the bay, over Methana, to the purple peaks of AEgina and the Attic shore beyond.
Once upon a time there was a princess in Troezene, Aithra, the daughter of Pittheus the king. She had one fair son, named Theseus, the bravest lad in all the land; and Aithra never smiled but when she looked at him, for her husband had forgotten her, and lived far away.
And Aithra smiled, and said, "Take, then, the sword and the sandals, and go to AEgeus, king of Athens, who lives on Pallas' hill; and say to him, 'The stone is lifted, but whose is the pledge beneath it? Then show him the sword and the sandals, and take what the Gods shall send." But Theseus wept, "Shall I leave you, O my mother?" But she answered, "Weep not for me.
And Aithra smiled, and said, 'Take, then, the sword and the sandals, and go to AEgeus, king of Athens, who lives on Pallas' hill; and say to him, "The stone is lifted, but whose is the pledge beneath it?" Then show him the sword and the sandals, and take what the Gods shall send. But Theseus wept, 'Shall I leave you, O my mother? But she answered, 'Weep not for me.
Others reject this verse, and the legend about Mounychus, who is said to have been the bastard son of Laodike, by Demophoon, and to have been brought up in Troy by Aithra.
Then his father clung to him like a child, and wept, and would not let him go, and cried, "Promise never to leave me till I die." And Jason turned to his uncle Pelias, "Now give me up the kingdom and fulfil your promise, as I have fulfilled mine." And his uncle gave him his kingdom. So Jason stayed at Iolcos by the sea. Once upon a time there was a Princess called Aithra.
The first and second instalments of this ghastly tribute had already been paid; but when the time of the third tribute was drawing nigh, the predestined deliverer of Athens appeared in the person of the hero Theseus. Theseus was the unacknowledged son of King Ægeus and the Princess Aithra of Trzen.
When she was tired of weeping Aithra lifted up her head and laid her finger on her lips, and said, "Hide them in your cloak, Theseus, my son, and come with me where we can look down upon the sea." They went outside the sacred wall and looked down over the bright blue sea, and Aithra said, "Do you see the land at our feet?" And Theseus said, "Yes, this is where I was born and bred."
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