Theonoë

A daughter of Thestor. She was carried off by pirates, and sold to king Icarus in Caria. Thestor, who went out in search of her, suffered shipwreck, and was taken as a prisoner to Caria. His other daughter Leucippe then consulted the Delphic oracle about her absent father and sister, and was directed to travel through all countries in the attire of a priest of Apollo.

Lecuippe, on hearing this response, cut her hair, and as a youthful priest went from country to country to find her family. When she had come to Caria, Theonoë saw her, and thinking she was a priest, fell in love with him, but as her love was unrequited she gave orders that the priest be shut in a room and that someone from the servants' quarters come to kill him. The would-be executioner happened to be their father Thestor and when he learned the identity of his daughters the three were reunited.

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