summer day, watching the reapers at work in his fields, he went to fetch them a drink of water and was never heard of more. So the reapers sought for him, calling him in plaintive strains, which they continued to chant at harvest ever afterwards.
Did they kill him? Later, the author wonders if the nymphs of the well where he drew water killed him. However, if the workers had killed him they might have drowned him by throwing him in the wall as a rain charm.
