[159] parentis: of course Aegeus, and not Minos, is meant, and the commands that would shut Ariadne, the rescuer of his son, out of his home she justly calls saeva; cf. Hyg. Fab. 43 “Theseus in insula Dia cogitans, si Ariadnen in patriam portasset, sibi opprobrium futurum” , etc.
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