person
Cycnus
also: Cycnus, Cycno, Cycni, Neptunia proles
Son of Neptune, invulnerable to weapons, who killed a thousand Greeks at Troy until Achilles strangled him with his own helmet-strap; Neptune then turned him into a swan.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §12.355 Cycnus
Son of Neptune, invulnerable to weapons; after slaughtering a thousand Greeks he is strangled by Achilles and turned into a swan.