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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: Soc. What say you? Have you never heard of Daedalus,[49] how he was
seized by Minos on account of his wisdom, and forced to be his slave,
and robbed of fatherland and freedom at one swoop? and how, while
endeavouring to make his escape with his son, he caused the boy's
death without effecting his own salvation, but was carried off among
barbarians and again enslaved?
[49] See Ovid. "Met." viii. 159 foll., 261 foll.; Hygin. "Fab." 39,
40; Diod. Sic. iv. 79; Paus. vii. 4. 6.
Yes, I know the old story (he answered).[50]
[50] Or, "Ah yes, of course; the tale is current."
Soc. Or have you not heard of the "woes of Palamedes,"[51] that
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