"There, at the mountain's base, all drowned in tears,

She lay, till chaste Diana on her woe

Compassion took: her altered form became

A limpid fount; her beauteous limbs dissolved,

And in perennial waters melt away."

Met. xv. 548.

"O'er their rough bed hoarse-murmuring waters move;

A pure but scanty draught is there supplied;

Egeria's fount, whom all the muses love,

Sage Numa's counsellor, his friend, and bride."