Note 492 — BOOK VII.
William Julius Mickle translation
As Canace.—Daughter of Eolus. Her father, having thrown her incestuous child to the dogs, sent her a sword, with which she slew herself. In Ovid she writes an epistle to her husband-brother, where she thus describes herself:—
Dextra tenet calamum, strictum tenet altera ferrum.