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The Knight and her Princess

"For not quietly shall the fisherman voyage, rowing his two-oared boat, to stir up Leucus, guardian of the kingdom, and weaving hate with lying wiles. He shall spare neither the children of Meda the wedded wife, in the rage of his mind, nor the daughter Cleisithera, whom her father shall betroth unhappily to the serpent whom he himself has reared. All will he slay with impious hands in the temple, maltreated and abused in the Trench of Oncaea."- Lycophron, Alexandra "Meda, wife of Idomeneus, with Leucus. But Leucus killed her, together with her daughter Clisithyra, who had taken refuge in the temple; and having detached ten cities from Crete he made himself tyrant of them; and when after the Trojan War Idomeneus landed in Crete, Leucus drove him out. These were the earlier contrivances of Nauplius" -Apollodorus "Leucus": Leucus, son of Talos of bronze, to whom Idomeneus entrusted the kingdom and the house when he left for Troy. Nauplios persuades this man to seize the kingdom of Idomeneus. He killed Idomeneus' wife, called Meda, and his daughter Cleisithera, whom he promised to give him as a wife when he returned from Troy he also killed his sons Iphiclus and Lycus. When Idomeneus returned from Troy, he blinded the rebel Leucus. This Leucus was exposed as a child, whom Idomeneus took and raised as his own. Therefore, he calls him a fostered serpent" -Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem "Leucus, the son of Talos, bloodthirsty Leucus), Even himself flees somewhere far, flees the island of Crete. He was pursued, though, by this Leucus, who was exceedingly powerful."-Chiliades