Venus changed Adonis into this flower. […] Clytie was turned into this flower by Apollo. […] The gods were so enraged at this that they turned Itys into a pheasant, Procne into a swallow, and Tereus into a hawk. […] She was metamorphosed into a mare. […] Procne was turned into a swallow, Philomela into a nightingale, Itys into a pheasant, and Tereus into a hoopoe, a kind of vulture, some say an owl.