Aegeus afterwards, knowing her whom he had lain with to be Pittheus's daughter, and suspecting her to be with child by him, left a sword and a pair of shoes, hiding them under a great stone that had a hollow in it exactly fitting them; and went away making her only privy to it, and commanding her, if she brought forth a son who, when he came to man's estate, should be able to lift up the stone and take away what he had left there, she should send him away to him with those things with all secrecy, and with injunctions to him as much as possible to conceal his journey from every one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually Mutinying against him, and despised him for his want of children, they themselves being fifty brothers, all sons of Pallas.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Columbus disputed the right of Ovando to take upon himself the office of judge in such a matter; and remarked that his own authority as viceroy must have sunk very low indeed, if it did not empower him to punish his officers for Mutinying against himself.
"The Life of Columbus"
Arthur Helps
Against his iron determination his wife's piteous pleading and evident suffering are more potent than the Mutinying hands; whether she can avail to turn him home "with a measly four hundred barrel of ile" is the problem of the play.
"The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays"
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