The answer which Caunos gave her was—
“Because I look at Byblis.”
Cyanée asked him too—
“Why is it that you do not now look at the forest?”
“Because Byblis’ hair is softer and more scented than the grass; because Byblis’ eyes—”
But Cyanée stopped him. “Child! be silent!”
Hoping to cure him of his illicit passion, she at once took him to a mountain-nymph who had seven daughters most wondrously and indescribably beautiful.
Both of them, after planning together, said to him—
“Make your choice, Caunos, and the one who pleases you shall be your wife.”
But Caunos looked at the seven young girls as unmovedly as if he had been looking at seven rocks; for the image of Byblis quite filled his little soul, and there was not room in him for an alien love.