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The young fiancee, who went crazy with what he had heard,
went to Ksanthios, the father of his fiancée, taking his father and
some of the notables of Lycia with him and tells him everything
that has happened. But he hides one thing. The young fiancee
does not tell Ksanthios that his daughter’s lover is his own son
Leucippus. Ksanthios, enraged by all that he heard, swears that
if he catches his daughter’s lover red-handed, he will punish
her.
Instead of talking to his daughter, Ksanthios, who was a pris-
oner of his anger, suddenly enters his daughter’s room in the
dead of night. Seeing her father enter the room, her daughter
hides in a corner in the dark. At that moment, Ksanthios thinks
that his daughter’s lover is that person who is hiding out of fear
and he swings his sword at her. The poor girl screams out in
pain and then dies. Leucippos, who came to the room upon the
scream he heard, killed Ksanthios as his sister’s lover because
the room was dark. Later, the heroic Lycian, who realized that
he has caused a family disaster, undertood that he could not
live in these lands any longer and he immigrates to Crete and
establishes a colony there. Leucippos, who participated in the
Trojan War with warriors from the colony he founded, became
one of the founders of the city of Magnesia, which is located in
today’s Aydın province, because of the prophecies he received
from Delphi (Erhat 1996).

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