He personified the change of seasons and that process of transformation in nature by means of which the leaf-buds become developed into blossoms and the blossoms into fruit. […] Theseus promised his father to change them for white in case of his returning victorious. […] Horæ, or Seasons, personified the regularity with which the changes of the seasons occur. […] Zeus, or Jupiter, presided over all phenomena of the heavens, the alternation of day and night, and the change of the seasons. […] They were ugly dwarfs of a dark-brown complexion, and were never seen except at night, because the sun’s rays had the power to change them into stones.

The peacock was chosen as the bird of Juno, because it was supposed by its cry to indicate a change of weather. […] A beautiful nymph, named Syrinx, was so persecuted by this god, that she prayed the water-nymphs to help her, and change her into reeds, which they did. […] The name comes from the Latin word verto, (to turn or change,) and was bestowed upon him in allusion to his power of taking any form he pleased. […] The truth seems to be that little or no change takes place in the fountain, which is well shaded and very deep. The great change which really takes place in the atmosphere is probably the cause of the apparent variation in the temperature of the fountain.