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son of Theseus; his step-mother Phaedra fell in love with him; he rejected her advances but promised not to tell, 3.108.

she accused him falsely; his innocence proved, Phaedra hanged herself and Theseus suffered life-long remorse, 1.32; 3.94.

M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.

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