Stellio

Family: mortals · Role: boy transformed into a newt · First appears: Fable 51

Life events

• Ceres transforms Stellio into a tiny spotted lizard-like creature.(Fable51)
  • With: Ceres
  • “She is offended; and a part being not yet quaffed, the Goddess sprinkles him, as he is {thus} talking, with the barley mixed with the liquor. His face contracts the stains, and he bears legs where just now he was bearing arms; a tail is added to his changed limbs; and he is contracted into a diminutive form, that no great power of doing injury may exist; his size is less than {that of} a small lizard.”

Fable 51

• with Ceres (Ceres transforms Stellio into a newt.) “Ceres goes everywhere in search of her daughter, and, in her journey, turns the boy Stellio into a newt.”

Also listed in Mortals — Minor Figures

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.