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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of male persons into stone > Battus changed into a touchstone: for violating the promise to keep Mercury's theft of Apollo's cattle a secret, Mercury turns Battus, the shepherd, into a touchstone (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 705)

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97F1Battus changed into a touchstone: for violating the promise to keep Mercury's theft of Apollo's cattle a secret, Mercury turns Battus, the shepherd, into a touchstone (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 705)  

Subject

  • ancient history
  • Battus
  • breach of promise
  • classical antiquity
  • history
  • man
  • Mercury
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 02
  • petrifying
  • promising
  • shepherd
  • stone
  • touchstone
  • transformation

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  • 97F1

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