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Telamon, the son of Aeacus and Endeïs, came
to Euboea, (violated the daughter of Alcothoüs,
Eriboea)1 and escaped by night. But when her
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father discovered the matter and suspected someone
of the citizens, he gave the girl to one of his guardsmen to be cast into the sea. But the guardsman took
pity on her, and sold her into slavery. When the
ship on which she was put in at Salamis, Telamon
bought her, and she bore Ajax. So Aretades the
Cnidian in the second book of his History of the
Islands.
Lucius Troscius had by Patris a daughter Florentia.
Calpurnius, a Roman, violated her, and Lucius delivered over the maiden to be thrown into the sea.
But she was pitied by the guardsman and sold into
slavery; and by chance her ship put in at Italy,
Calpurnius bought her, and had from her Contruscus.
1 Conjecturally restored; there is a lacuna in the mss.; cf. Frazer on Apollodorus, iii. 12. 7 (L.C.L. vol. ii. p. 60).
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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