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Cyanippus, a Thessalian by birth, used continually to go forth to hunt, but his wife, whom he
had but lately wed, suspected him of intimacy with
another woman, because of his habit of frequently
passing the night in the forest, and she followed on
the track of Cyanippus. Hiding herself in a thicket,
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she awaited events. But some branches were shaken
by her movements, and the dogs, thinking that she
was a wild animal, rushed upon her and tore to pieces
the loving wife like a brute beast. Cyanippus was a
witness of this unexpected event and slew himself.1
So the poet Parthenius.2
In Sybaris a city of Italy, a young man Aemilius,
greatly admired for his beauty, was very fond of
hunting. But his wife, whom he had but lately wed,
thought that he was consorting with another woman
and entered the dell. The trees were shaken by her
movements and the dogs rushed upon her and tore
her to pieces ; and her husband slew himself. So
Cleitonymus in the second book of his History of
Sybaris.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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