For how could a young girl master the paths of the Labyrinth?" "Minos, great lord, it is a mystery to me also, for there is only one map, and it remains in my possession." "Let me solve the mystery for you," said Minos. She is no accomplice but a victim, kidnapped and probably ravished by now, by your Prince Theseus. "And who do you think helped him?" "Well, the princess Ariadne has gone missing, perhaps she."' "Athenian, how dare you attempt to blame a blameless girl, who is not here to defend herself. "For my Labyrinth is quite inescapable." "I drew the same conclusion," said Minos. "Great Minos, offspring of Zeus and Europa, Theseus must have had help," said Daedalus. So how do you explain what has happened?" It would not even need a gate, you said, so confident were you of your design. Now Theseus, a prince of Athens, has killed my bull of a son and escaped from the Labyrinth which you devised so cleverly, you said, that neither my son nor any of the gifts I sent to him would ever be able to find a way out. "The Athenians sent you into exile for your jealous crime, but I took pity on you. Even now he is scared of heights and shows how clever he is by flying low over scrub to avoid raptors and hunters. And Athena herself, your patron, felt pity for your apprentice and transformed him into a partridge. For you had killed Perdix, your nephew, pushing him off the Acropolis, envious of his accomplishments, when you saw him invent the tooth-edged saw, and the potter's wheel and compasses, and knew that he surpassed you in inventiveness. You took me by the knees in pitiful supplication and asked me for asylum. He summoned Daedalus: "Daedalus, Athenian, once you came to me with Icarus your son. When Minos discovered that the Minotaur had been killed, the Athenians had escaped and his precious Ariadne had left with them, he was furious.
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