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Diomedes, after the destruction of Troy, was cast
by stress of weather upon the coast of Libya, where Lycus
the son of Mars was king, whose custom it was to sacrifice
all strangers to his father; but his daughter Callirrhoe
falling in love with Diomede, betrayed her father and set
Diomede at liberty; who presently went his way without
any regard to his benefactress, and Callirrhoe hanged herself upon it.—Juba, Book the Third of his Libyan
History.
Calpurnius Crassus, a famous man bearing arms with
Regulus, was sent to the Massyllians to attack the castle
of Garaetius, being a very strong place. He was taken in
the enterprise, and designed for a sacrifice to Saturn; but
Bisaltia, the king's daughter, out of a passionate kindness
to Calpurnius, betrayed her father. Calpurnius left her,
and after his departure Bisaltia cut her own throat.—Hesianax's Third Book of African History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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