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Aeolus, king of the Etruscans, begat from
Amphithea six daughters and the like number of
sons. Macareus, the youngest, for love violated one
of his sisters and she became pregnant. Her plight
was discovered and her father sent her a sword ; she
judged herself a law-breaker and made away wTith
herself. Macareus also did likewise.1 So Sostratus
in the second book of his Etruscan History.
Papirius Tolucer married Julia Pulchra and begat
six daughters and the like number of sons. The
eldest, Papirius Romanus, fell in love with his sister
Canulia and got her with child. Their father learned
of it and sent his daughter a sword. She killed
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herself; Romanus also did the same. So Chrysippus
in the first book of his Italian History.
1 Cf. Stobaeus, Florilegium, lxiv. 35 (iv. p. 472 Hense); Ovid, Heroïdes, xi.
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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