Depiction of the second story told by the crow Cornix to the white raven Corvus. Cornix (sometimes called Coronis) was the daughter of Coroneus in Phocis. When she was a girl walking along the beach, the sea god Neptune tried to take advantage of her. Minerva came to Cornix's rescue and turned her into a crow. Below the image are two lines of verse in Latin. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered sets: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series., Cornix turns into a

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