Let us go down to the black-sailed ship.' So they went down to the black-sailed ship, seven maidens, and seven youths, and Theseus before them all, and the people following them lamenting.

But Theseus whispered to his companions, 'Have hope, for the monster is not immortal.

Where are Periphetes, and Sinis, and Sciron, and all whom I have slain ?' Then their hearts were comforted a little; but they wept as they went on board, and the cliffs of Sunium rang, and all the isles of the AEgean Sea, with the voice of their lamentation, as they sailed on toward their deaths in Crete..