Cyparissus
(
*Kupa/rissos), a youth of Cea, a son of Telephus, was beloved by Apollo and Zephyrus or Silvanus. When he had inadvertently killed his favourite stag, he was seized with immoderate grief, and metamorphosed into a cypress. (
Ov. Met. 10.120, &c.;
Serv. ad Aen. 3.64,
680,
Eclog. 10.26,
Georg. 1.20.) Another Cyparissus is mentioned by Eustathius. (
Ad Hom. Il. 2.519.)
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