Cyparissus was a handsome prince and of exceptional beauty, and it was very dear to the sun god Apollo , who had taught music, handling of the 'bow, and gave him into custody a sacred animal: a deer that had no equal in the world.
Cyparissus was happy with this gift and spent the 'whole day with her deer horns' s solid gold ; had put around her neck a rich collection of jewels, an ornament of leather with buckles' silver , and so went from house to house as a pet, caressed and nurtured by everyone from young girls with tufts of 'fragrant grass. No one dared
harm to the wonderful animal Prince Cyparissus , sacred to the nymphs of the woods.
One day he sat upon the mount deer Cyparissus ran through the woods;
stopped in a grassy meadow had a great desire to hunt doves and magpies avvistaste during the race, so he left the deer to graze on the lawn and into the forest with bow and arrows.
While darting doves saw a fox in a bush, the chase between the logs and bushes, but soon lost sight of. He continued to look long in the dense forest, and every noise pointing the 'bow ready to shoot the arrow. At one point he saw something move behind a hedge, I think I achieved, holding a dart and threw it towards the prey, but a high bellowing echoed under the trees, a cry that seemed to pierce the heart of the prince: it was his beloved deer.
Cyparissus felt his death, had the 'impression that the arrow' s had received him in the middle of the chest, dumb and tearless now reached the deer panting threw back his head by the horns' gold and died. The young prince in a silent and inscrutable pain called Apollo, but he was inconsolable crying near her sacred deer.
Apollo saw him from 'high in the sky and also saw the deer lying on its' grass, then got to ask how such a tragedy had occurred; Cyparissus told him 's happened but did not want any comfort, just wanted to be alone to cry because now the' only thing that eased the pain were the tears.
He spent his days without food, without seeing anyone, he wandered the countryside in tears. One day Apollo
went to see him crying while sitting in the woods, and asked him what he could do to alleviate her pain, the 'only thing we ask Cyparissus was to be immortal to cry forever his deer. So
Apollo touched by such devotion put the hand on the forehead of the young prince, alzatolo and wrapped up tight in his green cloak, Cyparissus with a shudder of cold looked at the sky, the tears flowed from her eyes became incessant small dark green leaves, and briefly covered the mantle and the young man's face, the feet are hardened and 'sank into the ground, where there was weeping and the beautiful Cyparissus , stands in the' air an elegant cypress .
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