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1. A merchant of the island of Thera, who, according to the Cyrenaean accounts of the
foundation of their city, was the instrument made use of by Etearchus, king of Axus, for the
destruction of his daughter Phronime. [ETEARCHUS.] Themison,
however, evaded the fulfilment of the oath by which he had involuntarily bound himself to
drown Phronime, and carried her in safety to Thera. (