Lyncus

Role: king of Scythia · First appears: Fable 54

Life events

• Lyncus attacks Triptolemus with a sword while he sleeps.(Fable54 · 📍 Scythia)
  • With: Triptolemus
  • “The barbarian envies him; and that he himself may be {deemed} the author of so great a benefit, he receives him with hospitality, and, when overpowered with sleep, he attacks him with the sword.”
• Ceres transforms Lyncus into a lynx as he attempts to kill Triptolemus.(Fable54 · 📍 Scythia)
  • With: Ceres
  • “{But}, while attempting to pierce his breast, Ceres made him a lynx;”

Fable 54

• enemies with Triptolemus “The barbarian envies him; and that he himself may be {deemed} the author of so great a benefit, he receives him with hospitality, and, when overpowered with sleep, he attacks him with the sword.”
• with Ceres (Ceres transforms Lyncus into a lynx.) “{But}, while attempting to pierce his breast, Ceres made him a lynx; and again sent the Mopsopian[80] youth to drive the sacred drawers of her chariot through the air.”

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