• In the revolt of the Ten Tribes. 1 Kings 12:18:⁠— “Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died; therefore King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.” ↩
• Amphiaraus, the soothsayer, foreseeing his own death if he went to the Theban war, concealed himself, to avoid going. His wife Eriphyle, bribed by a “golden necklace set with diamonds,” betrayed to her brother Adrastus his hiding-place, and Amphiaraus, departing, charged his son Alcmeon to kill Eriphyle as soon as he heard of his death. Ovid, Metamorphoses , IX :⁠— “The son shall bathe his hands in parent’s blood, And in one act be both unjust and good.” Statius, Theb. , II 355, Lewis’s Tr. :⁠— “Fair Eriphyle the rich gift beheld, And her sick breast with secret envy swelled. Not the late omens and the well-known tale To cure her vain ambition aught avail. O had the wretch by self-experience known The future woes, and sorrows not her own! But fate decrees her wretched spouse must bleed, And the son’s frenzy clear the mother’s deed.” ↩