in poetical history, the daughter of Tireias, and like her father strongly inspired with prophecy. She was in so great esteem, that, when the Argives pillaged Thebes, they thought they could not acquire acquit their vow to Apollo, of consecrating to him the most precious thing in their plunder, without offering him this young woman. She was therefore sent to the temple of Delphi. But this did not engage her in any vow of continency; or, if it did, she observed it very ill. For she bore a son, called Amphithecus, to Alcmenon, who had been generalissimo of the army which took Thebes; and a daughter to the same, named Typhione. These children were the fruits of an amour carried on during the madness which had seized Alcmenon, after he had put his mother to death. Virgil transports her into Italy, not for the sake of securing her virginity, but to produce a son of her who built Mantua.