His sister Lampetie subitâ radice retenta est. All the sisters were changed to trees while they were in vain beseeching their mother not to break their branches. Cortex in verba novissima venit.
His brother Cycnus, lamenting the death of Phaëton killed by Jove’s lightning, and the metamorphosis of his sisters, was changed into a swan,—
nec se coeloque, Jovique
Credit, ut injustè missi memor ignis ab illo.
(Nor trusts himself to the heavens
Nor to Jove, as if remembering the fire unjustly sent by him),
i. e. against Phaëton. (Reason why the swan does not fly.)
... precibusque minas regaliter addit.
([Jove] royally adds threats to prayers.)
Callisto miles erat Phoebes, i. e. a huntress.
... (neque enim coelestia tingi