When he arrives on Naxos, he does not mince words and Ariadne does not doubt them, for her grandfather is all-seeing.
"By cunning, he chose to leave his sails black to take Aegeus' throne, then blames me so he will be thought a tragic hero king," she laments, clutching the frayed linen of her once-fine robe, "how foolish I was to await a return that will never come, abandoned and wasting in disgrace for betraying Crete!"
"I may tell you thus - he will suffer a great loss that no divine favours will save him from," he assures her, and because he knows her fate entails a bridegroom of greater lineage that a granddaughter of Helios deserves, "weep no more, for when your exile ends, you will have a crown among the stars."
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"By cunning, he chose to leave his sails black to take Aegeus' throne, then blames me so he will be thought a tragic hero king," she laments, clutching the frayed linen of her once-fine robe, "how foolish I was to await a return that will never come, abandoned and wasting in disgrace for betraying Crete!"
"I may tell you thus - he will suffer a great loss that no divine favours will save him from," he assures her, and because he knows her fate entails a bridegroom of greater lineage that a granddaughter of Helios deserves, "weep no more, for when your exile ends, you will have a crown among the stars."