Metamorphoses

Ovid

Ovid's Byblis writes, pursues, and weeps herself into a spring — the Carian twin whose letter became a set-piece of forbidden desire.

Byblis

Daughter of Miletus who loved her twin Caunus — aetiology of a spring and a caution still filed under her name.

Parthenius of Nicaea

Parthenius

Love Romances preserves the Hellenistic Byblis variants — the dossier Ovid amplified into metamorphosis.