Cyparissus

Role: youth · First appears: Fable 85

Life events

• Cyparissus accidentally kills the sacred stag with a sharp javelin.(Fable85)
  • “By inadvertence the boy Cyparissus pierced him with a sharp javelin”
• Apollo transforms Cyparissus into a cypress after his grief becomes perpetual.(Fable85)
  • With: Apollo
  • “And now, his blood quite exhausted by incessant weeping, his limbs began to be changed into a green colour”

Fable 85

• with Apollo (Apollo transforms Cyparissus into a cypress.) “Apollo transforms him into a Cypress.”
• admirer: Apollo (Apollo is the god described as loving Cyparissus.) “Amid this throng was present the cypress, resembling the cone,[18] now a tree, {but} once a youth, beloved by that God who fits the lyre with the strings, and the bow with strings.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.