The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Libys

Role: sailor · First appears: Fable 37

Life events

  • The sailors leap overboard and are transformed, leaving Acœtes as the sole survivor.(Fable37)
    • With: Bacchus Acœtes Lycabas
    • “Of twenty the moment before (for so many did that ship carry), I was the only one remaining.”

Fable 37

  • with Acœtes (interaction) “‘Cease praying for us,’ said Dictys, than whom there was not another more nimble at climbing to the main-top-yards, and at sliding down by catching hold of a rope. This Libys, this the yellow-haired Melanthus, the guardian of the prow, and this Alcimedon approved of; and Epopeus[91] as well, the cheerer of their spirits, who by his voice gave both rest and time to the oars; {and} so did all the rest”

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