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Ovid's Metamorphoses collects more transformation stories in its 14th book.

The fourth episode covers Circe's encounter with Ulysses, with the detail that he too is changed to a pig and only Eurylochus remains to rescue the men ( lines 242-307 ).

The first episode in that book deals with the story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the enamoured sea-god seeks a love filtre to win Scylla's love, only to have the sorceress fall in love with him.

When she is unsuccessful, she takes revenge on her rival by turning Scylla into a monster ( lines 1-74 ).

The story of the Latin king Picus is told in the fifth episode ( and also alluded to in the Aeneid ).

Circe fell in love with him too ; when he preferred to remain faithful to his wife Canens, she turned him into a woodpecker ( lines 308-440 ).