The graceful girl was suddenly bereft of speech, changed into a rough, ungainly bear, and driven out into the solitudes of the great forests, which were from that time forth to be her home. […] Her father had answered her prayer by changing her into a laurel tree. […] The gods, in pity for her sufferings, changed her into the goddess Leucothea and her son into a sea deity by the name of Palæmon. […] A moment later she was enveloped in a thick mist and transformed into a fountain. […] To punish the boy for his rudeness, Ceres flung the remainder of the gruel into his face, and changed him into a lizard.