From Cygnus’ shoulders the fair armour’s spoil,

Retraced their way direct, and instant reach’d

The city Trachys with their fleet-hoof’d steeds:

While pass’d the goddess of the azure eyes

To great Olympus, and her father’s towers.

But Ceyx o’er the corse of Cygnus raised

A tomb. Innumerable people graced

His obsequies: both they who dwelt hard by

The city of the illustrious king, and they

Of Anthe, of Iolchos wide-renown’d,