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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: the guards lay sleeping heavily; for she had silenced them
with wine.
Then they fled to their ship together, and leapt on board,
and hoisted up the sail; and the night lay dark around them,
so that they passed through Minos' ships, and escaped all
safe to Naxos; and there Ariadne became Theseus' wife.
PART IV - HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE
BUT that fair Ariadne never came to Athens with her husband.
Some say that Theseus left her sleeping on Naxos among the
Cyclades; and that Dionusos the wine-king found her, and took
her up into the sky, as you shall see some day in a painting
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