Ocyrhoë verteld haar vader Cheiron het lot van Aesculapius (Ocyrhoe tells her father Cheiron the fate of Aesculapius). 19th-century etching of a print byWillem van Mieris, 1694
Ocyrhoe, daughter ofChiron andChariclo. She was transformed into a horse because she told her father Chiron his exact fate. Ocyrhoe revealed that he would forsake his immortality to be spared the agonizing pain of a serpent's poison. For this transgression, Ocyrhoe's ability to speak was taken. One might assume that she turned into a horse because her father was acentaur, and because she had long, auburn hair.[4]
Ocyrhoë, the nymph daughter of theriver godImbrasus andChesias, a noble maiden. While inMiletus at a festival in honor ofArtemis, she caught Apollo's attention and, fleeing from his advances, askedPompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home. Pompilus took her on board the ship, but Apollo caught up with them, took the girl and then changed the ship into stone and Pompilus into a fish.[6]
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