(), the tortoise. When all the gods, men, and
animals were invited by Hermes to attend the wedding of Zeus and Hera, the nymph Chelone alone
remained at home, to shew her disregard of the solemnity. But Hermes then descended from
Olympus, threw Chelone's house, which stood on the bank of a river, together with the nymph,
into the water, and changed her into a tortoise, who had henceforth to carry her house on her
back. (