In those days men did not think of things as we do. […] Thus do we pay King Minos for the death of his son.” […] In the end we had to yield to the king, and we must send him each year seven youths and seven beautiful maidens. […] For ten years we fought under King Agamemnon at Troy, and now, when we thought to reach our homes, we have been driven from our course and lost on the ocean. […] “If we harm the oxen, we are ruined.”