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Updated: May 3, 2025
If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.
But Medeia called her dragon chariot, and sprang into it and fled aloft, away over land and sea; and no man saw her more. And AEgeus cried, "What hast thou done?" But Theseus pointed to the stone, "I have rid the land of an enchantment: now I will rid it of one more." And he came close to AEgeus, and drew from his bosom the sword and the sandals, and said the words which his mother bade him.
And for Minos he made statues which spoke and moved, and the temple of Britomartis, and the dancing-hall of Ariadne, which he carved of fair white stone. And in Sardinia he worked for Ioelaos; and in many a land beside, wandering up and down forever with his cunning, unlovely and accursed by men. But Theseus stood before Minos, and they looked each other in the face.
"It is little that I can give you, noble lad, and nothing that is worthy of you; for surely you are no mortal man, or at least no mortal's son." "All that I ask," said Theseus, "is to eat and drink at your table." "That I can give you," said AEgeus, "if at least I am master in my own hall."
It was another thread in the thin cord that, like the silken line Ariadne gave to Theseus, had led him to come successfully out of the bewildering labyrinth into which the investigation of the crime had beguiled him.
Then, finding that this only made Theseus the more determined, he said: "But if you must go, I will have a new ship built for you, stanch and stout and fast sailing; and fifty of the bravest young men in Troezen shall go with you; and mayhap with fair winds and fearless hearts you shall escape the pirates and reach Athens in safety."
They also went in crowds to these gardens to hear the philosophers, who taught in the cool porticoes or stone piazzas built all around them, and there they learned many good things. Cimon showed his patriotism in still another way by persuading the people that the remains of Theseus, their ancient king, should rest in the city.
But Theseus wrapped his mantle round his left arm quickly, in hard folds, and drew his sword, and rushed upon the Club-bearer, and the Club-bearer rushed on him. Thrice he struck at Theseus and made him bend under the blows like a sapling. And thrice Theseus sprang upright after the blow, and he stabbed at the Club-bearer with his sword, but the loose folds of the bear-skin saved him.
But the most probable story and that which most writers agree in is the following: The two friends, Theseus and Peirithous, came to Sparta, seized the maiden, who was dancing in the temple of Artemis Orthia, and carried her off.
Then Theseus passed through the old town of Megara, and followed the shore of the bay towards the sacred city of Eleusis. "Do not go into Eleusis, but take the road which leads round it through the hills," whispered a poor man who was carrying a sheep to market. "Why shall I do that?" asked Theseus. "Listen, and I will tell you," was the answer.
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