N. B. Larissa, before she
leaped, made an Offering of a Silver
Cupid in the Temple of Apollo.
Simaetha, in Love with Daphnis
the Myndian, perished in the
Fall.
Charixus, the Brother of Sappho, in Love with Rhodope the Courtesan, having spent his whole Estate upon her, was advised by his Sister to leap in the Beginning of his Amour, but would not hearken to her till he was reduced to his last Talent; being forsaken by Rhodope, at length resolved to take the Leap. Perished in it.
Aridaeus, a beautiful Youth of
Epirus, in Love with Praxinoe,
the Wife of Thespis, escaped without
Damage, saving only that two of
his Fore-Teeth were struck out and his
Nose a little flatted.
Cleora, a Widow of Ephesus, being inconsolable for the Death of her Husband, was resolved to take this Leap in order to get rid of her Passion for his Memory; but being arrived at the Promontory, she there met with Dimmachus the Miletian, and after a short Conversation with him, laid aside the Thoughts of her Leap, and married him in the Temple of Apollo.
N. B. Her Widows Weeds are
still to be seen hanging up in the
Western Corner of the Temple.
Olphis, the Fisherman, having received
a Box on the Ear from
Thestylis the Day before, and being
determined to have no more to do
with her, leaped, and escaped with Life.
Atalanta, an old Maid, whose Cruelty had several Years before driven two or three despairing Lovers to this Leap; being now in the fifty fifth Year of her Age, and in Love with an Officer of Sparta, broke her Neck in the Fall.
Hipparchus being passionately fond
of his own Wife who was enamoured
of Bathyllus, leaped, and died
of his Fall; upon which his Wife
married her Gallant.
Tettyx, the Dancing-Master, in
Love with Olympia an Athenian
Matron, threw himself from the Rock with
great Agility, but was
crippled in the Fall.
Diagoras, the Usurer, in Love with
his Cook-Maid; he peeped several
times over the Precipice, but his Heart
misgiving him, he went back,
and married her that Evening.
Cinaedus, after having entered
his own Name in the Pythian Records,
being asked the Name of the Person whom
he leaped for, and being
ashamed to discover it, he was set aside,
and not suffered to leap.