Ajax Telamon and Ulysses contend for the arms of Achilles. Ihe former
slays himself, on which a hyacinth springs up from his blood. Troy being
taken, Hecuba is carried to Thrace, where she tears out the eyes of
Polymnestor, and is afterwards changed into a bitch. While the Gods
deplore her misfortunes, Aurora is occupied with grief for the death of
her son Memnon, from whose ashes the birds called Memnonides arise.
Æneas flying from Troy, visits Anius, whose daughters have been changed
into doves; and after touching at other places, remarkable for various
transformations, he arrives in Sicily, where is the maiden Scylla, to
whom Galatea relates how Polyphemus courted her, and how he slew Acis.
On this, Glaucus, who has been changed into a sea Deity, makes his
appearance.