Ascalăphus

, a son of Mars and Astyoche, who was among the Argonauts, and went to the Trojan war at the head of the Ochomenians, with his brother Ialmenus. He was killed by Deiphobus. Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 , li. 13 ; bk. 9 , li. 82 ; bk. 13 , li. 518 .――A son of Acheron by Gorgyra or Orphne, stationed by Pluto to watch over Proser pine in the Elysian fields. When Ceres had obtained from Jupiter her daughter’s freedom and return upon earth, provided she had eaten nothing in the kingdom of Pluto, Ascalaphus discovered that she had eaten some pomegranates from a tree; upon which Proser pine was ordered by Jupiter to remain six months with Pluto, and the rest of the year with her mother. Proser pine was so displeased with Ascalaphus, that she sprinkled water on his head, and immediately turned him into an owl. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 5 ; bk. 2 , ch. 5 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , fable 8.