AkontiusAcontius

A love smitten young man from the island of Keos (Ceos) who found a novel way to entwine the one he loved.

Akontius gave an apple to his true love, Kydippe (Cydippe), with an inscription saying, I swear by Artemis that I will marry no one but Akontius; when Kydippe read the message aloud it became a sacred oath; when her parents tried to marry her to other young men she became ill; finally, to fulfill her oath, she married Akontius.

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