a transformation, metamorphosis; in plur.: Mĕtămorphōses , -ĕōn, the Metamorphoses, a well-known poem of Ovid; in Gr. acc. plur. Metamorphoseis, Tert. adv. Val. 12: censeo eam rem ad metamorphosis Ovidi adiciendam, Sen. Apocol. 9, 5; in Gr. dat. plur. : ut Ovidius lascivire in Metamorphosesi solet, Quint. 4, 1, 77.