person
Picus
An early king of Latium, son of Saturn, beloved of the nymph Canens; Circe, spurned, turned him into a woodpecker (picus).
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.444 woodpecker on its youthful head
The statue of Picus, the woodpecker-king of Latium, whose story Circe's handmaid is about to tell.
- Metamorphoses §14.445 Picus
An early king of Latium, son of Saturn; his story explains the woodpecker (picus) sacred to Mars and the marble statue Macareus sees in Circe's shrine.