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After the sack of Troy Diomedes was cast up
on the Libyan coast where Lycus was king, whose
custom it was to sacrifice strangers to his father Ares.
But Callirrhoe, the king's daughter, fell in love with
Diomedes and betrayed her father : loosing Diomedes from his bonds, she saved him. But he,
without regard for his benefactor, sailed away, and
she ended her life with a halter. So Juba in the
third book of his Libyan History.
Calpurnius Crassus, one of the noblemen who had
campaigned with Regulus, was dispatched against the
Massylians to sack a certain stronghold by name
Garaetium, a place difficult to capture. He was
taken captive and was destined to be sacrificed to
Saturn ; but Bisaltia, daughter of the king, fell in love
with him, betrayed her father, and gave her lover the
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victory. But when he returned home, the maiden
slew herself. So Hesianax in the third book of his
Libyan History.
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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