I.a transformation, metamorphosis; in plur.: Mĕtămorphōses , -ĕōn, the Metamorphoses, a well-known poem of Ovid; in Gr. acc. plur. Metamorphoseis, Tert. adv. Val. 12: “censeo eam rem ad metamorphosis Ovidi adiciendam,” Sen. Apocol. 9, 5; in Gr. dat. plur.: “ut Ovidius lascivire in Metamorphosesi solet,” Quint. 4, 1, 77.
mĕtămorphōsis , is, f., = μεταμόρφωσις,