Chapter 17 No.17

That god who shakes the sounding thunder,

Asteria as a furtive eagle saw;

Mnemosyne as shepherd; Danae gold;

Alcmene as a fish; Antiope a goat;

Cadmus and his sister a white bull;

Leda as swan, and Dolida as dragon;

And through the lofty object I become,

From subject viler still, a god.

A horse was Saturn;

And in a calf a