 Thereafter, the spelling of Caenis was changed to Caeneus to mark his transformation.Caeneus is said to have died in the battle between the Lapiths and the centaurs ("see Pirithous").Similarly, in the "Iliad" (without referring to these transformations) Nestor numbers Caeneus among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed".