 Giovanni Boccaccio cites a lost Latin writer for the story that Orion and Candiope were son and daughter of Oenopion , king of Sicily . While the virgin huntsman Orion was sleeping in a cave , Venus seduced him ; as he left the cave , he saw his sister shining as she crossed in front of it . He ravished her ; when his father heard of this , he banished Orion . Orion consulted an oracle , which told him that if he went east , he would regain the glory of kingship . Orion , Candiope , and their son <unk> sailed to Thrace , " a province eastward from Sicily " . There he conquered the inhabitants , and became known as the son of Neptune . His son begat the Dryas mentioned in Statius . 
