On the stage, of course, her transmutation can only be indicated by the presence of a pair of ox horns on her virgin forehead.
ἡ ποικιλείμων νύξ. Buntgewandige—Schoe. “Various-vested Night.”—Coleridge, in a Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon.
ἀιθέριον κίνυγμα.
Saturn the father of Jove.
“And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air: for it repenteth me that I have made him.”—Gen. vi. 7.