The corpus record — Latin

Ceyx

Ceyx · m

the male kingfisher

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k

What it meant

cēÿx — Lewis & Short

cēÿx, ȳcis, m., = kh/u+c,

I the male kingfisher (the female, halcyon), Plin. 32, 8, 27, § 86.—Personified: Cēyx, ȳcis, m., = *kh/u+c, a son of Lucifer, king of Trachis, and husband of Alcyone. Having suffered shipwreck at Delphi, he and his wife were changed to kingfishers, Ov. H. 17 (18), 81; id. M. 11, 272; 11, 544; 11, 739; Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 399.—Acc. Gr. Cēȳca, Ov. M. 11, 727.

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