in fabulous history, the daughter of Lycaon king of Arcadia, and one of the nymphs of Diana; who being beloved by Jupiter, that god assumed the form of the goddess of chastity, by which means he debauched her: but her disgrace being revealed, as she was bathing with her patroness, the incensed deity turned her and the son, with which she was pregnant, into bears; when Jupiter, in compassion to her sufferings, took them up into the heavens, and made them the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

CALIX. See CALYX.