Caphaurus
Role: shepherd · First appears: Book IV 12
Life events
- Caphaurus killed Canthus with a stone while defending his sheep.(Book IV 12 · 📍 Libya)
- With: Canthus
- “a shepherd who, in defence of his own sheep, while thou weft leading them off to thy comrades in their need, slew thee by the cast of a stone”
- The Argonaut chieftains killed Caphaurus in revenge for Canthus.(Book IV 12)
- “But he escaped not the chieftains’ avenging hands, when they learned the deed he had done.”
Book IV 12
- parent: Amphithemis “And Amphithemis wedded a Tritonian nymph; and she bare to him Nasamon and strong Caphaurus”
- elder kin: Apollo “for he was no weakling, Caphaurus, the grandson of Lycoreian Phoebus and the chaste maiden Acacallis”
- elder kin: Acacallis “for he was no weakling, Caphaurus, the grandson of Lycoreian Phoebus and the chaste maiden Acacallis”
- enemies with Canthus “while thou weft leading them off to thy comrades in their need, slew thee by the cast of a stone; for he was no weakling, Caphaurus”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.