wan, a bird of
the same name, he having been vulnerable by no weapon. At the banquet of
the chiefs, Nestor calls to mind Caeneus, who was also invulnerable; and
who having been changed from a woman into a man, on being buried under a
heap of trees, was transformed into a bird. This Caeneus was one of the
Lapithae, at the battle of whom with the Centaurs, Nestor was present.
Nestor also tells how his brother, Periclymenus, was changed into an
eagle. Meanwhile, Neptune laments the death of Cygnus, and entreats
Apollo to direct the arrow of Paris against the heel of Achilles, which
is done, and that hero is slain.

BOOK XIII.

Ajax Telamon and Ulysses contend for the arms of Achilles. Ihe former
slays himself, on which a hyacinth springs up from his blood. Troy being
taken, Hecuba is carried to Thrace, where she tears out the eyes of
Polymnestor, and is afterwards changed into a bitch. While the Gods
deplore her misfortunes, Aurora is occupied with grief for the death of
her son Memnon, from whose ashes the birds called Memnonides arise.
AEneas flying from Troy, visits Anius, whose daughters have been changed
into doves; and after touching at other places, remarkable for various
transformations, he arrives in Sicily, where is the maiden Scylla, to
whom Galatea relates how Polyphemus courted her, and how he slew Acis.
On this, Glaucus, who has been changed into a sea Deity, makes his
appearance.

BOOK XIV.

Circe changes Scylla into a monster. AEneas arrives in Africa, and is
entertained by Dido. Passing by the islands called Pithecusae, where the
Cecropes have been transformed from men into apes, he comes to Italy;
and landing near the spot which he calls Caicta, he learns from Macareus
many particulars respecting Ulysses and the incantations of Circe, and
how king Picus was changed into a woodpecker. He afterwards wages war
with Turnus. Through Venulus, Turnus asks assistance of Diomedes, whose
companions have been transformed into birds, and he is refused. Venulus,
as he returns, sees the spot where an Apulian shepherd had been changed
into an olive tree. The ships of AEneas, when on fire, become sea Nymphs,
just as a heron formerly arose from the flames of the city of Ardea.
AEneas is now made a Deity. Other kings succeed him, and in the time of
Procas Pomona lives. She is beloved by Vertumnus, who first assumes the
form of an old woman; and having told the story of Anaxarete, who was
changed into a stone for h