A Siphnian woman who betrayed her city for gold demanded in her greed and was changed by the gods into a black-foot, black-winged daw that ever since delights in gold.1
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When Minos mustered the Cyclades against Athens, Ovid names among his allies the place which Arne the impious Siphnian had betrayed: having received the gold she demanded in her greed, she was transformed into a bird that imagines gold its chief delight — a black-foot, black-winged daw.2
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