Pocris Being Accidentally Killed by Her Husband Cephalus

From the Getty Museum record

Derided by the author of this text, Boccaccio, as a supreme example of the faults of women everywhere, Pocris ultimately valued gold over her husband Cephalus. Cephalus had tested her fidelity after Aura, a beautiful woman who had attempted and failed to seduce him, said that if given the choice, Pocris would choose wealth before love. Cephalus hired a man to offer Pocris jewels and gold in exchange for her devotion, and she ultimately agreed. Caught in her willingness to commit adultery, Pocris fled to the woods, where she became intensely worried that Aura was going to steal her husband. Following her husband as he hunted, Pocris stirred the swamp reeds in which she hid and was mistaken for a deer hiding in the tall grasses. Cephalus shot her with an arrow immediately.