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Metamorphoses

Book 5, Line 22 by Henry T. Riley (English)

“His face contracts the stains, and he bears legs where just now he was bearing arms; a tail is added to his changed limbs; and he is contracted into a diminutive form, that no great power of doing injury may exist; his size is less than that of a small lizard. He flies from the old woman, astounded and weeping, and trying to touch the monstrosity; and he seeks a lurking place, and has a name suited to his color, having his body speckled with various spots.”

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Project Gutenberg #21765, The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Henry T. Riley), Book 5 extraction