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Updated: June 19, 2025
He adopted the customs and letters of Greece, and gave just laws to his country. Tharrhypas was the father of Alketas, who was the father of Arybas, who married Troas and by her became the father of Æakides. This man married Phthia the daughter of Menon of Thessaly, who had gained great distinction in the Lamian war, and who yielded in reputation to no one except to Leosthenes himself.
She answered that she was a native of Sidon, and a rich man's daughter, stolen from her home by pirates, and sold across the seas. 'And hast thou a mind to see thy native land again? asked the fellow. 'Thy father and mother still live and prosper'; for she had told him that her father's name was Arybas.
The man who had seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on this she told him her father's name. 'I come from Sidon, said she, 'and am daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth.
Alcetas was the son of Tharrhypas, Arybas of Alcetas, and of Arybas and Troas his queen, Aeacides: he married Phthia, the daughter of Menon, the Thessalian, a man of note at the time off the Lamiac war, and of highest command in the confederate army next to Leosthenes. To Aeacides were born of Phthia, Deidamia and Troas daughters, and Pyrrhus a son.
Then he asked her who she was and whence she came, and straightway she showed him the lofty home of my father, saying: "From out of Sidon I avow that I come, land rich in bronze, and I am the daughter of Arybas, the deeply wealthy.
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