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But Medea, being then wedded to
Aegeus, plotted against him1 and persuaded Aegeus to beware of
him as a traitor. And Aegeus, not knowing his own son, was afraid and sent him against the
Marathonian bull.
1 That Theseus was sent against the Marathonian bull at the instigation of Medea is affirmed also by the First Vatican Mythographer. See Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 18, (First Vatican Mythographer, Fab. 48). Compare Plut. Thes. 14; Paus. 1.27.10; Ov. Met. 7.433ff. As to Medes at Athens, see above, Apollod. 1.9.28.
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