The nymph Caenis, whose name is changed to Caeneus, pursues the centaurs with great slaughter, who at length crush the hero with huge forests of trees—The gods, however, in compassion, change him into an eagle.
“Already Caeneus, with his conquering hand, Had slaughter’d five, the boldest of their band, Pyrachmus, Helymus, Antimachus, Bromus the brave, and stronger Stiphelus. Their names I number’d, and remember well, No trace remaining, by what wounds they fell.