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: Let anyone whose mind is steady remember this, once he has learned the story of Thestius ' daughter, ruthless Althaea, who killed her own son.

She contrived a plot to burn the brand that fate assigned to span his life ; it had been kept since the day he came out crying from his mother's loins.

Deliberately, deceitfully, she set on fire what was to have kept pace with him from birth to death.

It glowed bright red before the fire blackened it.