This was the origin of the proverb — “There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip.” […] The oracle told her that marriage would be fatal to her, but, being very beautiful, she had many suitors. […] She shed so many tears for unrequited love that she was turned into a fountain. […] She became his wife, and at his death was so disconsolate, and shed so many tears, that Diana changed her into a fountain. […] A son of Sol, or, according to many mythologists, of Phœbus and Clymene.