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Cornix is a character in Ovid

Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
's Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses (poem)

The Metamorphoses by the Ancient Rome poet Ovid is a Narrative poetry in fifteen books that describes the Creation myth and history of the world....
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There, she recounts how she was a princess, the daughter of Coroneus. One day as she was walking by the seashore, Neptune

NEPTUNE

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 saw her. When attempts to persuade her were unavailing, he attempted rape. She fled, crying out to men and gods, and while no man heard her, "the virgin goddess feels pity for a virgin": Minerva

Minerva

Minerva was the Roman mythology name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving,crafts, and the inventor of music....
 transformed her into a crow. She also cites her resentment that her place as Minerva's servant is being taken over by Nyctimene

Nyctimene

Nyctimene is a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The daughter of Epopeus, a king of Lesbos, she had sexual intercourse with her father and was transformed by Minerva into an owl....
 transformed into the owl, where the transformation was punitive.

John Gower

John Gower

John Gower was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirroir de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and po...
 took up the tale for use in his Confessio Amantis

Confessio Amantis

Confessio Amantis is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems....
, with particular emphasis on her delight in her escape:

With fetheres blake as eny cole
Out of hise armes in a throwe
Sche flih before his yhe a Crowe;
Which was to hire a more delit,
To kepe hire maidenhede whit
Under the wede of fethers blake,
In Perles whyte than forsake
That no lif mai restore ayein.