Caeneus

Caeneus (dissyl.) (dissyl.), eos, m.: 1. A Thessalian girl, formerly named Caenis, transformed by Neptune into a boy, 6.448. 2. A follower of Aeneas, 9.573.

Caeneus (dissyl.), ĕos (gen., Stat. Th. 7, 644; voc. Caenĭ, Ov. M. 12, 470: Caeneu, id. ib. 12, 531), m.,

• = Καινεύς, orig. a girl, named Caenis, Ov. M. 12, 189; 12, 195; 12, 201; 12, 470 sq., the daughter of Elatus, afterwards changed by Neptune into a boy, he was subsequently present at the Calydonian hunt and at the contest of the Centaurs and Lapithae, and finally was metamorphosed into a bird. Ov. M. 12, 189; 12, 459 sq.; 12, 514 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 14; acc. to Verg. he again became a female. Verg. A. 6, 448 Serv.—
• II A companion of Aeneas, Verg. A. 9, 573.

Caeneus, eī u. eos, m. (Καινεύς), als Mädchen geboren, mit Namen Caenis, Tochter des Elatus, dann von Neptun in einen unverwundbaren Knaben u. zuletzt in einen Vogel verwandelt, Ov. met. 12, 189 sqq. u. 459 sqq. Hyg. fab. 14; wieder in ein Mädchen nach Verg. Aen. 6, 448.

Cæneūs, (14) ĕī ou ĕos, m. (Καινεύς), fille du Lapithe Élatus, appelée alors Cænis, fut ensuite changée en homme par Neptune : Virg. En. 6, 448 || nom dʼun guerrier troyen : Virg. En. 9, 573.

Caeneus

(Καινεύς). The son of Elatus and Hippia, one of the Lapithae of Gyrton in Thessaly. The story was that he was originally a girl named Caenis, whom her lover Poseidon changed, at her own request, into a man, and at the same time rendered her invulnerable. Caeneus took part in the Argonautic expedition and the Calydonian boar-hunt. At the marriage of Pirithoüs, the Centaurs, finding him invulnerable, crushed him to death with the trunks of trees, and he was afterwards changed into a bird. See Pirithoüs.