Acontius

, a youth of Cea, who, when he went to Delos to see the sacrifice of Diana, fell in love with Cydippe, a beautiful virgin, and being unable to obtain her, on account of the obscurity of his origin, wrote these verses on an apple, which he threw into her bosom: Juro tibi sanctæ per mystic a sacra Dianæ, Me tibi venturam comitem, sponsamque futuram. Cydippe read the verses, and being compelled by the oath she had inadvertently made, married Acontius. Ovid , Heroides , poem 20.――A mountain of Bœotia. Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 7 .