Editing Procris (section)

====Early version====
[[Ovid]] tells the end of the story a bit differently in the third of his books on ''The Art of Love.''<ref name="May">Ovid. Transl. J. Lewis May. [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo60.htm ''The Art of Love''], sacred-texts.com</ref><ref name="Kline">Ovid. Transl. [[A. S. Kline]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070703070529/http://www.gutenberg.com/eBooks/TonyKline_Collection/Html/ArtofLoveBkIII.htm ''The Art of Love''], The Gutenberg Museum Mainz</ref> No goddesses are mentioned in this earlier published work, a [[cautionary tale]] against [[credulity]]. After hunting, Cephalus calls for a breeze ([[Zephyrus|Zephyr]]<ref name="May"/> or [[Aura (mythology)|Aura]]<ref name="Kline"/>) to cool him as he lies in the shade.

Overhearing a comment to Procris, a [[busybody]] reports what he heard to Procris, who grew pale with terror that her husband loved another, and hastened in fury to the valley, then crept silently to the forest where Cephalus hunted. When she saw him flop on the grass to cool himself and call, to Zephyr to come relieve him, Procris realized that what she had taken to be the name of a lover was merely a name for the air and nothing more. Joyfully she rose to fling herself into his arms, but hearing a rustling of foliage, Cephalus shot an arrow at what he thought would be a wild beast in the brush. Dying, the woman laments that the breeze by whose name she was deceived would now carry away her spirit, and her husband weeps, holding her in his arms.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}