1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Phyllis

A daughter of Sithon, or, according to other writers, of Lycurgus, king of Thrace.

She received Demophoon, who landed on her coasts on his return from the Trojan war, and fell in love with him, and he reciprocated her affection; but afterward proving faithless, Phyllis hanged herself, and, according to an old tradition, was changed into an almond tree.

Picumnus and Pilumnus. Two gods of matrimony in the rustic religion of the ancient Romans.

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