Nymph daughter of the river Cebren whom Paris married before Helen — she learned prophecy from Rhea, warned him not to sail for Sparta, and when he returned wounded from Philoctetes' bow refused to heal him until repentance came too late and she hanged herself on Ida.1
Apollodorus says Alexander married Oenone, daughter of the river Cebren, before he carried Helen away. She had learned the art of prophecy from Rhea and warned him not to sail to fetch the Spartan queen; failing to persuade him, she told him to come to her if he were wounded, for she alone could heal him.2
When Philoctetes shot Paris with the bow of Heracles, the prince sought healing on Mount Ida from the nymph he had abandoned. Oenone refused; when she repented and came with her drugs he was already dead — and she hanged herself on the mountain. Hyginus and Ovid carry the same epilogue to the archer's kill in the Little Iliad.3
She must not be merged with Oenone the ancient name of the island Aegina — the nymph of Cebren belongs to Ida and the Trojan royal marriages, not to the Aeacid island renamed for Zeus' beloved.4
Apollodorus and Ovid place her on Mount Ida and the river Cebren — Paris' first wife before Helen, and the healer he sought when wounded — but no source in our seven lenses names Ilion itself as her polis. The summary-only residence-citation rule finds no Troy-residence sentence; citation stays intentionally unset.5
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