CAL´YDON (Prince of), Melea´ger, famed for killing the Calydonian boar.

But when Callirrhoe saw Coresus as a corpse, overcome by pity and repentance for her treatment of him, she went and drowned herself in the fountain not far from the Calydonian harbor, which since that time is known as the fountain of Callirrhoe.

Althea 'twashis mothersmote The mighty Meleager down Who slew the Calydonian boar; The mother slew her child.