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Milon

3. An Epeirot, who assassinated Deidameia, the daughter of Pyrrhus II., at the altar of Diana, to which she had fled for refuge [DEIDAMEIA]. For this sacrilege he was punished by a fit of frenzy, and put an end to his own life in a miserable manner. (Just. 28.3.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.