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English, 21.07.2019 01:20, mhh92

Read the passage from “cruel tribute.” "now then," said minos, "you shall hear my decree. athens has robbed me of my dearest treasure, a treasure that can never be restored to me; so, in return, i require from athens, as tribute, that possession which is the dearest and most precious to her people; and it shall be destroyed cruelly as my son was destroyed." "the condition is hard," said the elders, "but it is just. what is the tribute which you require? " "has the king a son? " asked minos. the face of king aegeus lost all its color and he trembled as he thought of a little child then with its mother at troezen, on the other side of the saronic sea. but the elders knew nothing about that child, and they answered: "alas, no! he has no son; but he has fifty nephews who are eating up his substance and longing for the time to come when one of them shall be king; and, as we have said, it was they who slew the young prince, androgeos." by placing this passage at the beginning of the story, the author builds suspense for the arrival of .

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