Ligdus

Family: Phæstian · Role: husband and father · First appears: Fable 82

Life events

• Ligdus orders Telethusa to kill any daughter born to her.(Fable82)
  • With: Telethusa
  • “if a female should, by chance, be brought forth at thy delivery, (I command it with reluctance, forgive me, natural affection) let it be put to death.”
• Ligdus promises Iphis in marriage to Ianthe.(Fable82 · 📍 Phæstus)
  • With: Iphis Ianthe
  • “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe, who was a virgin the most commended among all the women of Phæstus, for the endowments of her beauty;”

Fable 82

• married with Telethusa “For once on a time the Phæstian land[65] adjoining to the Gnossian kingdom produced one Ligdus, of obscure name, a man of the freeborn class of common people. Nor were his means any greater than his rank, but his life and his honour were untainted. He startled the ears of his wife in her pregnancy, with these words”
• with Ianthe (interaction) “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe,”

Also listed in Phæstian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.