The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.
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 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.

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