Alcyŏne

, or Halcyŏne , daughter of Æolus, married Ceyx, who was drowned as he was going to Claros to consult the oracle. The gods apprised Alcyone in a dream of her husband’s fate; and when she found, on the morrow, his body washed on the sea-shore, she threw herself into the sea, and was with her husband changed into birds of the same name, who keep the waters calm and serene, while they build and sit on their nests on the surface of the sea, for the space of 7, 11, or 14 days. Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 399 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 7 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 11 , fable 10.— Hyginus , fable 65.――One of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas. She had Arethusa by Neptune, and Eleuthera by Apollo. She, with her sisters, was changed into a constellation. See: Pleiades . Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 30 ; bk. 3 , ch. 18 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 10 .— Hyginus , fable 157.――The daughter of Evenus, carried away by Apollo after her marriage. Her husband pursued the ravisher with his bow and arrows, but was not able to recover her. Upon this, her parents called her Alcyone, and compared her fate to that of the wife of Ceyx. Homer , Iliad , bk. 9 , li. 558 .――The wife of Meleager. Hyginus , fable 174.――A town of The aly, where Philip, Alexander’s father, lost one of his eyes.