Alcyone, The name of two Ladies, the one was wife to Ceyr, who seeing the bodie of hir husband cast on land, threw hir selfe into the sea, whome the Poets feigne to be turned into a byrde of that name. The other was daughter to Euene, called also Marpesia.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Alcŏnē (Halc-), ēs, f., = *)alkuo/nh, a daughter of Æolus, who, from love to her husband Ceyx, who had suffered shipwreck, threw herself into the sea and was changed into a kingfisher (a)lkuw/n; v. alcedo), Ov. M. 11, 384; 710 sq.