Seleucus king of Asia, gaue his wife to his owne sonne in mariage, being
his mother in lawe; who so feruently did loue her, that he was like to
die, whiche by a discrete and wyse inuention, was discouered to Seleucus
by a Phisition.
[_Source and Origin._--Plutarch, _Demetrius_ (probably in Amyot’s
translation).
_Parallels_.--Val. Max. v. 7; Wanley, _Wonders_, III. ix. 4.
_Painter_, I. i. 51; II. i. 48; III. i. 88; IV. i. 102.]