Itys

, a son of Tereus king of Thrace by Procne, daughter of Pandion king of Athens. He was killed by his mother when he was about six years old, and served up as meat before his father. He was changed into a pheasant, his mother into a swallow, and his father into an owl. See: Philomela . Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 6 , li. 620 ; Amores , bk. 2 , poem 14, li. 29 .— Horace , bk. 4 , ode 12.――A Trojan who came to Italy with Æneas, and was killed by Turnus. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 9 , li. 574 .