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Aeolus, a great king of Etruria, had by Amphithea
six daughters, and as many sons. Macareus, the youngest
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of them, had the carnal knowledge of one of his sisters,
who was delivered of a boy. Her father sent her a sword
to kill the child with; but that was so impious, that she
chose rather to kill herself. And Macareus laid violent
hands upon himself too.—Sostratus, in his Second Book
of Tuscan History.
Papirius Tolucer married Julia Pulchra, by whom he
had six sons and six daughters. Papirius Romanus, the
eldest of the six, got Canulia his sister with child. When
the father came to the knowledge of it, he sent his daughter a sword, with which she killed herself; and Romanus
did the same.—Chrysippus, in his First Book of Italian
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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