Caenis virgo fuit, quae a Neptuno pro stupro praemium sexus mutationem meruit. Fuit etiam invulnerabilis. Sed pugnando pro Lapythis contra centauros, crebris ictibus fustium paulllatim fixus in terra est. Post mortem tamen in sexum rediit.
--Vatian Mythographers II.130
Neptune assaulted the woman Caenis and in return, gave her as a gift the change of gender. [Caeneus] also became indestructible (impervious to being stabbed). But when he helped the Lapiths battle the centaurs, he was crushed to death by logs. When he died, his gender changed back.
VATICAN MYTHOGRAPHERS
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Name: ???
Date: 10th c.
CE (?)
Works: Mythographi
Vaticani*
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Little is known about the author or origin of the collection of myths
known as the Vatican Mythographers, but the work’s first editor Angelo
Mai found the collection on a manuscript dating back to the 10th
century CE. This volume is a collection of three different mythographers who
have assembled various Greco-Roman myths; although many of these myths are
basic summaries in Latin, some of them are either analyzed as allegories or
compared to Christian thought.
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LATE LATIN (10th c.
CE ?)
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