so transported with the Violence of her Passion, that she was resolved to get rid of it at any Price.

[There]

was a Promontory in

Acarnania

called

Leucrate

[1]

on the Top of which was a little Temple dedicated to Apollo. In this Temple it was usual for

despairing

Lovers to make their Vows in secret, and afterwards to fling themselves from the Top of the Precipice into the Sea, where they were sometimes taken up alive. This Place was therefore called,