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• 9 · Classical Mythology and Ancient History
• 97 · metamorphoses ~ classical mythology

97E · metamorphoses of male persons into (fabulous) animals

• 97E1 · Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
• 97E2 · Cadmus and Harmonia changed into snakes: when loaded with grief and the infirmity of old age, Cadmus and Harmonia are changed into snakes (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 576)
• 97E4 · Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)
• 97E5 · Tithonus changed into a cicada: when grown old and infirm, Tithonus is changed into a cicada by Aurora