Did breake, and vnderneathe the sea the head of Ceyx stracke.'
But at last Ceyx was wrecked; and before he could swim to the shore, the billows swallowed him up.
The direful prodigies that followed this event made Ceyx feel that the gods were hostile to him.
She seemed to see the storm and the shipwreck, and the form of Ceyx appeared, saying a sad farewell to her.
Their happiness was unmarred until there came a day when Ceyx had to mourn for the loss of a brother.
