 At last he announced he would be consulting the Pythian Oracle before making a final decision; the suitors got outraged by that and killed Phocus.Callirhoe had to flee from the suitors; some peasants hid her away in the grain, and thus she escaped them.During the festival of Pamboeotia, she went to the shrine of Athena Itonia at Coroneia and revealed the crime of her suitors to the public; the people sympathized with her and declared a war on her father's murderers.