2. A daughter of Herodicus, a noble Thessalian, who had been put to death by Philip V. king
of Macedonia. Many years afterwards, the increasing suspicions and cruelty of that monarch
having led hint to contemplate the destruction of the children of all those whom he had
previously executed, Theoxena sought to make her escape by sea with her husband Poris and her
two nephews, whom she had adopted; but the ship being driven back, in order to avoid falling
into the hands of the king's emissaries, she slew her nephews with her own hand, and then
threw herself with her husband into the sea. (