text:  He begins by informing his hearer that he is the son of Hippias a noble and wealthy denizen of Tyre and that he had been betrothed from his childhood as was not unusual in those times [2] to his own half-sister Calligone:--but Leucippe the daughter of Sostratus a brother of Hippias resident at Byzantium having arrived with her mother Panthia to claim the hospitality of their Tyrian relatives during a war impending between their native city and the Thracian tribes Clitophon at once becomes enamoured of his cousin whose charms are described in terms of glowing panegyric:--"She seemed to me like the representation of Europa which I see in the picture before me--her eye beaming with joy and happiness--her locks fair [3] and flowing in natural ringlets but her eyebrows and eyelashes jetty black--her complexion fair but with a blush in her cheeks like that faint crimson with which the Lydian women stain ivory and her lips like the hue of a fresh-opened rose