After tearing his body to pieces, they threw his head into the Hebrus,
which, as it rolled down the current, ejaculated with touching tenderness,
'Eurydice! Eurydice!' until it reached the Aegean sea.
The inhabitants of Dian asserted that his tomb was in their city, but the
people of Mount Libethrus, in Thrace, claimed the same honour, remarking
that the nightingales which formed their nests near it, excelled all others
in melody and beauty. After his death, he is reported by some to have
received divine honours, the muses rendering the rites of sepulture to his
remains, and his lyre becoming one of the constellations.
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