in fabulous history, the daughter of Lycaon king of Arcadia, and one of the nymphs of Diana. 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 patronesses, 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.