In Ovid''s ":
Pyramus and Thisbe", 2 young lovers runaway from their adjoining homes one night to meet up at a
mulberry tree
over top the grave of a famous person named Ninus. A lioness attacks Thisbe (who arrives first) and she hides in a crevice in a crag. When
Pyramus shows up and finds her trampled veil, he assumes she''s dead and kills himself. She finds him dead and kills herself too, his blood, spurted a hecic purple staining forever the fruit on
mulberry trees.