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A tail was added to his altered limbs,
and his form shrunk down to something tiny,
the size of a small lizard, even less,
without the strength to injure anyone.
Ceres transforms a boy into a lizard
Stop, mother! Stop doing that! I’m begging you to stop! Inside the tree my body is being torn. Farewell.
The cry of one of the daughters of the Sun as they are transformed into trees
However, to make sure your songs, born to charm the ear, and your great vocal gifts would not be lost if your tongues disappeared, your virgin faces and human voice remained.
SYRENES ARE TRANSFORMED
her hair is changed to leaves, her arms to branches, her feet, so swift a moment before, stick fast in sluggish roots, a covering of foliage spreads across her face.
Daphne is transformed into a laurel tree
Lumps of earth began to move, and spear points first appeared to rise up from the furrows, then, a short time later, heads with helmets and nodding painted crests, then shoulder blades and chests emerged, as well as limbs weighed down with weapons.
DRAGON TEETH WERE TRANSFORMED IN TO THE EARTH BORN WARRIORS
Why leave out Tartarus? Why should you not
expand your mother’s kingdom and your own?
Venus persuading cupid to shoot an arrow at Pluto
Take pity upon my children whose bodies you see
Are afloat in the vast Ionian Sea. Transform them to sea-gods.
Some credit is owed me in your domain, if I once was.
Venus begs Neptune
During this era of debased desires, every form of crime broke out, and honour, truth, and faith ran off. In their place appeared [130] cheating, treachery, deceit, viciousness,
Age of Iron
His voice becomes shrill, white feathers hide his hair, a lengthy neck now stretches from his breast, a membrane links his reddening fingers, wings dress his sides, his mouth now sprouts a beak without a point.
Cycnus is transformed into a swan
Jupiter shortened the previous springtime and split each year in different seasons, with winter, summer, changeable autumn, and short-lived spring.
Silver Age
Rivers of milk
would sometimes flow. Sometimes streams of nectar
and yellow honey dripped from green oak trees.
Golden Age
Leave the temple. Cover your head, and loosen
the garments gathered around you. Then throw
behind your backs the bones of your great parent.
Themis speaks to Deucalion and Pyrrha
By now the three sisters have been hiding for a while in smoky rooms, avoiding TRANSFORMED the fire and light in several places.
THE DAUGHTERS OF MYNIAS ARE TRANSFORMED INTO A BATS.
She is held down by roots, but always turns her face towards her Sun. Although transformed, she still maintains her love.
CLYTHIE TRANSFORMES INTO A SUNFLOWER
Together they were seized and carried off through empty space by a tremendous wind and placed in the sky as neighbouring stars.
CALLISTO AND ARCAS ARE TRANSFORMED
Either I will avenge your deaths, my faithful comrades, or I will share it
Cadmus, after discovering his men dead in the grove
Here lies he, who wished to guide his father’s chariot. And though he died, there was great daring in what he tried.”
Epitaph written on Phaëton's tombstone by the Hesperian naiads
And by using wax to join together reeds of different lengths, he had immortalized the young girl’s name.
Pan makes from transformed Syrinx a marsh pipe
I bring the roof down on his household gods, who are worthy of their master. He runs off quite terrified, and then, once he reaches the quiet countryside, begins to howl, trying without success to speak.
Zeus transforms Lycaon in to a wolf.
She eats arbutus leaves and bitter herbs. In her sad state, she lies upon the ground, often on bare earth where there is no grass, instead of in her bed, and takes a drink from muddy streams.
Ino is transformed into a cow
“It's such a little thing that blocks our love. Whoever you may be, come here! O you extraordinary boy, why play these tricks with me? When I seek you, where do you go?
Narcissus speaking to his reflection
In ruthless pursuit of her object
She seized the torch she had steeped in gore,
She dressed in a red robe dyed in a stream of blood,
And girdled this with a writhing snake as she left the house.
Tisiphone/Fury getting ready to do Juno’s bidding
They stand all around him, sinking jaws inside his body, ripping to pieces their own master, whom they see as the deceiving image of a stag.
DOGS ARE EATING ALIVE A DEER - TRANSFORMED ACTAEON
Since that time, she hides out in the woods. No one has ever seen her in the mountains, but she is heard by all. It is the sound which still lives on in her.
A NYMPH ECHO TURNED INTO AN ECHO
He was then transformed from man to woman. He spent seven years like that, and in the eighth year came across the selfsame sight once more
TIRESIAS WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A WOMAN