him in this action, took any Amazon prisoner. Bion adds, that, to
take her, he had to use deceit and fly away; for the Amazons, he
says, being naturally lovers of men, were so far from avoiding
Theseus when he touched upon their coasts, that they sent him
presents to his ship; but he, having invited Antiope, who brought
them, to come aboard, immediately set sail and carried her away.
An author named Menecrates, that wrote the History of Nicaea in
Bithynia, adds, that Theseus, having Antiope aboard his vessel,
cruised for some time about those coasts, and that there were in
the same ship three young men of Athens, that accompanied him in
his voyage, all brothers, whose names were Euneos, Thoas, and
Soloon. The last of these fell desperately in love with Antiope;
and escaping the notice of the rest, revealed the secret only to
one of his most intimate acquaintance, and employed him to
disclose his passion to Antiope. She rejected his pretences with a
very positive denial, yet treated the matter with much gentleness
and discretion, and made no complaint to Theseus of anything that
had happened; but Soloon, the thing being desperate, leaped into a
river near the seaside and drowned himself. As soon as Theseus was
aquainted with his death, and his unhappy love that was the cause
of it, he was extremely distressed, and, in the height of his
grief, an oracle which he had formerly received at Delphi came
into his mind; for he had been commanded by the priestess of
Apollo Pythius, that, wherever in a strange land he was most
sorrowful and under the greatest affliction, he should build a
city there, and leave some of his followers to be governors of the
place. For this cause he there founded a city, which he called,
from the name of Apollo, Pythopolis, and, in honor of the
unfortunate youth, he named the river that runs by it Soloon, and
left the two surviving brothers intrusted with the care of the