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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: so that the people honoured him as a hero. But when AEgeus
saw his valour, he envied him, and feared lest he should join
the sons of Pallas, and take away the sceptre from him. So
he plotted against his life, and slew him basely, no man
knows how or where. Some say that he waylaid him by Oinoe,
on the road which goes to Thebes; and some that he sent him
against the bull of Marathon, that the beast might kill him.
But AEgeus says that the young men killed him from envy,
because he had conquered them in the games. So Minos came
hither and avenged him, and would not depart till this land
had promised him tribute - seven youths and seven maidens
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