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metamorphosis

metamorphosis · f

a transformation, metamorphosis

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Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k

What it meant

mĕtămorphōsis — Lewis & Short

mĕtămorphōsis, is, f., = metamo/rfwsis,

I a transformation, metamorphosis; in plur.: Mĕtămorphōses, -ĕōn, the Metamorphoses, a well-known poem of Ovid; in Gr. acc. plur. Metamorphoseis, Tert. adv. Val. 12: censeo eam rem ad metamorphosis Ovidi adiciendam, Sen. Apocol. 9, 5; in Gr. dat. plur.: ut Ovidius lascivire in Metamorphosesi solet, Quint. 4, 1, 77.

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