The paradoxographer Apollonius (Mirab. 40, p. 53 Keller) preserves the memory of a singular occurrence which Aristoxenus (fr. 117 Wehrli) had recorded as having happened in southern Italy in his own time. A strange insanity afflicted women. They would suddenly leap up in the middle of dinner, hearing the call of a voice, and rush out into the country.μαντενομένοις δ⋯ τοῖς Λοκροῖς κα⋯ ‘Ρηγίνοις περ⋯ τ⋯ς ⋯παλλαγ⋯ς το⋯ πάθους εἰπεῖν τ⋯ν θεόν, παι⋯νας ἄιδειν ⋯αρινοὺς †δωδεκατης† ⋯μέρας’