316And while these things are done on earth by the law of fate, and the cradle of twice-born Bacchus is safe, they say that Jupiter by chance, well flushed with nectar, had set aside his heavy cares and, at leisure, traded idle jests with Juno, and said, 'Surely your pleasure is greater than that which falls to males.' 322She denies it. 322They decided to ask what the opinion of learned Tiresias was: to him love in both forms was known. 324For with a blow of his staff he had struck two bodies of great serpents mating in the green wood; 326and changed (a marvel) from a man into a woman, he had spent seven autumns.
327In the eighth he saw the same snakes again, and said, 'If there is such power in a blow struck at you that it changes the striker's lot into its opposite,