CHAP. V.
Of his Wife.
* 1.1 HIs wife was named Lysis, by him called Melissa, daughter to Procleus, Tyrant of Epidaurus and Eristhenea, the daugh∣ter of Aristacrates, by the sister of Aristomedes, which persons ruled over the greatest part of Arcadia.* 1.2 He fell in love with her, seeing her in a Peloponnessian dresse, in her petticote, without a gown, giving drink to her fathers workmen:* 1.3 Long after he kil'd her in his fury, big with child, with a stool, or a blow of his foot, being wrought upon by the accusations of his concubines, whom he afterward burned.
* 1.4 He sent one day to Threspotos upon the River Acheron, to en∣quire by Necromancy concerning a depositum. Melissa appear∣ing, said, she would not tell them in what place it was laid, be∣cause she was cold and naked, the clothes wherein she was bu∣ried doing her no good, for they were not burned, confirming the truth whereof by Perianders puting bread into a cold o∣ven; which answer carried to Periander, made good the suspi∣tion that (* 1.5 through excesse of love) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Hereupon he caused proclamation to be made that all the Corinthian wo∣men should come to Iuno's Temple to celebrate a festivall, at∣tyred in their richest ornaments, when they came, having pla∣ced a guard of souldiers in ambush, he striped them all, with∣out any distinction (free women and servants) of their clothes, which he carried to Melissas grave, and having praid, burn'd them to her▪ This done, he sent messengers to enquire the se∣cond time, to whom Melissa's Ghost appeared, and told them where the depositum was laid.