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novo, ‘sudden.’ The expression seems to be taken from VII. 362, “et quos Maera novo latratu terruit agros”, where, as frequently, the epithet is used of a characteristic induced by sudden metamorphosis, and need not be connected predicatively with terruit.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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