Poseidon lay with Caeneus (then called Caenis) and, at her request, transformed her into an invulnerable male warrior who later fought the Centaurs at the Lapith wedding.
Caeneus fought alongside Pirithous at the Centauromachy, defending the wedding feast from the drunken centaurs. Both were Lapith warriors of renown.
The Centaurs overwhelmed Caeneus during the Centauromachy, burying the invulnerable warrior under a pile of rocks and tree trunks when no blade could pierce his skin.
Caeneus sailed with the Argonauts on the quest for the Golden Fleece, listed among Jason's crew in Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica.
The Lapiths, the legendary Thessalian tribe, counted among their members King Hypseus, his daughter Cyrene, and the invulnerable warrior Caeneus.
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