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How to use Aegeus in a sentence

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The deuteragonist could have played the nurse, Jason, and messenger, with the tritagonist playing the tutor, Creon, and Aegeus.
He 'forgets' to change the colour of his ship's sails from black to white, thus wrongly signalling to his father Aegeus that he has been killed by the Minotaur.
But he forgot his promise, and when Aegeus saw the black sail, he flung himself from the Acropolis and died.
Knowing that he was going to be separated from his son at his birth, Aegeus hid gold sandals and a sword under a rock.
His father Aegeus let Theseus depart only with a heavy heart and asked him to set sails in a colour agreed between them upon his successful return, so that the happy completion of the venture would be visible from the shore.
In some versions of the myth of Theseus, the Attic hero who succeeded his father Aegeus as king of Athens, his mother, Aethra, was impregnated by the sea god Poseidon while Aegeus slept.
On his arrival in Athens, Theseus found his father married to the sorceress Medea, who recognized Theseus before his father did and tried to persuade Aegeus to poison him.
Theseus had promised Aegeus that if he returned successful from Crete, he would hoist a white sail in place of the black sail with which the fatal ship bearing the sacrificial victims to the Minotaur always put to sea.
Examples from Classical Literature
And finally, since he could not help it, King Aegeus consented to let him go.
He won all the contests at the Panathenaic festival at Athens, whose king, Aegeus, slew him out of jealousy.
Such is the irrational element in the introduction of Aegeus by Euripides and the badness of Menelaus in the Orestes.
Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King aegeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies.
Now King aegeus had been gazing earnestly at the young stranger, as he drew near the throne.
So saying, King aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and was about to offer it to Theseus.
Even while he prayed there came a ship into the harbor, bringing a letter to aegeus and alarming news from Athens.
As the sword flashed from its scabbard, aegeus saw the letters that were engraved upon it-the initials of his own name.
Consequently she advised aegeus to invite him to a feast, that she might poison him.
At last he found aegeus, lonely and sorrowful, sitting in an inner chamber.
He could scarcely wait to see whether King aegeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms.
And, besides, her actual mode of escape is largely independent of aegeus.
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