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1. A daughter of Orion and sister of Metioche. After Orion was killed by Artemis, Menippe
and Metioche were brought up by their mother, and Athena taught them the art of weaving, and
Aphrodite gave them beauty. Once the whole of Aonia was visited by a plague, and the oracle of
Apollo Gortynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to propitiate the two Erinnyes by
the sacrifice of two maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of their own accord.
Menippe and Metioche offered themselves; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, and killed
themselves with their shuttles. Persephone and Hades metamorphosed them into comets. The
Aonians erected to them a sanctuary near Orchomenos, where a propitiatory sacrifice was
offered to them every year by youths and maidens. The Aeolians called these maidens Coronides.
(ad Hom. Il. 18.486.)