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in Love with _Daphnis_, very much bruised, but escaped with Life. _Cynisca_, the Wife of _AEschines_, being in Love with _Lycus_; and _AEschines_ her Husband being in Love with _Eurilla_; (which had made this married Couple very uneasy to one another for several Years) both the Husband and the Wife took the Leap by Consent; they both of them escaped, and have lived very happily together ever since. _Larissa_, a Virgin of _Thessaly_, deserted by _Plexippus_, after a Courtship of three Years; she stood upon the Brow of the Promontory for some time, and after having thrown down a Ring, a Bracelet, and a little Picture, with other Presents which she had received from _Plexippus_, she threw her self into the Sea, and was taken up alive. _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
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