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PYRAMUS AND THISBE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 685 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PYRAMUS AND THISBE , the hero and heroine of a Babylonian love-story told by
Ovid
  (Metam. iv. 55-465). Their parents refused to consent to their
union
 , and the lovers used to converse through a chink in the
wall
  separating their houses. At last they resolved to flee together, and agreed to meet under a mulberry tree near the tomb of Ninus. Thisbe was the first to arrive, but, terrified by the roar of a
lion
 , took to flight. In her haste she dropped her veil, which the
lion
  tore to pieces with jaws stained with the blood of an ox. Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself. Thisbe returned to the rendezvous, and finding her lover mortally wounded, put an end to her own
life
 . From that time the fruit of the mulberry, previously
white
 , was always black.
See G.
Hart
 , Die Urspryng and Verbreitung der Pyramus- und-Thisbesage (1889-1892).


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