About This Quote
In the world of allegorical stories, it is a common belief that the story ends when the main character dies. However, this is not what happened to the characters that the poet allegorized. In this quote from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a young man named Eros is transformed into a four-legged animal and wanders lost for a long time before he finds his way back to his old home.
Source: Love In The Time Of Cholera
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