person
Byblis
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the girl whose hopeless love for her brother Caunus drives her across the lands until, sinking at the end of her strength, she is changed beyond death into a spring.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §439 Byblis
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the girl whose love for her brother Caunus drives her across the lands until, sinking, she is changed beyond death into a spring---Rilke's image of the woman who loves.