“Then said Mary unto the angel. How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?”

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Helice, or Callisto, was a daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia. She was one of the attendant nymphs of Diana, who discarded her on account of an amour with Jupiter, for which Juno turned her into a bear. Arcas was the offspring of this amour. Jupiter changed them to the constellations of the Great and Little Bear.

Ovid, Metamorphoses II , Addison’s Tr. :⁠—