So enamored of a beautiful Greek youth named Damocles, Demetrius followed the teenager everywhere, hoping to seduce him. known not only for his beauty but for his virtue as well, the boy fled in horror from the king's relentless sexual advances. Finally, tracked down and cornered in a public bathhouse by the King, Damocles quickly searched for a means of escape. He found none and jumped into a cauldron of boiling water rather than compromise himself - a suicide that Plutarch later called "untimely and unmerited, but worthy of the beauty that occasioned it."