A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Thisbe
THISBE,
A beautiful Babylonian maiden, whose unhappy love for Pyranius has rendered her immortal. The parents of the lovers opposing their union, they were able to converse only through a hole in the wall which separated their parents' houses. They made an appointment to meet at the tomb of Ninus without the city. This became first, and frightened by the appearance of a lioness, she fled to a neighbouring thicket, dropping her mantle in her flight, which was torn to pieces by the animal Pyramus coming Just in time to see the torn mantle and the lioness in the distance, concluded that Thisbe had been devoured by the wild beast. In his despair he killed himself with his sword. When Thisbe emerged from her hiding-place, and found Pyramus lying dead, she stabbed herself with the same weapon. They were buried together.