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Transcription: Theseus began to understand why the people he had passed earlier had been weeping. Their children must have been selected to be among those sent to Crete. How terrible! thought Theseus. All mortals must die. That is fate. But to die in captivity is an unendurable thing. It was indeed an evil day when Aegis permitted Androgeus, son of Minos, to hunt Poseidon's white bull. said another noble, taking the scepter. will not permit us to forget his loss. But recall our war with Minos. For years we fought, neither side prevailing. The funeral pyres burned high for months.