perotheus

Updated: June 27, 2025

Now, it so happened that at this time the Duke Perotheus came to visit his old playfellow and friend Theseus, and at his intercession Arcite was liberated, on the condition that on pain of death he should never again be found in the Athenian dominions. Then the two knights grieved in their hearts. 'What matters liberty? said Arcite, 'I am a banished man!

Alexander Smith - Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country