transform Copy link Outline 1. expr. by mūto, 12. verto, ti, sum, 33. transformo, 14. transfĭgūro, 1 • transform: 1. expr. by mūto, 1: e. g. formam mutare, Ov. Met. init.: so figuram m., ib. 1, 547: cf. Hor. Od. 1, 2, 41 (sive mutata juvenem figura ales in terris imitaris): and simply muto, ib. 2, 20, 10: Ov. M. 1, 704, et pass. 2. verto, ti, sum, 3: he is t.'d into a bird, vertitur in volucrem, Ov. M. 6, 672: nature t.s food into living bodies, natura cibos in corpora viva v., Lucr. 2, 880: earth t.s itself into water. terra in aquam se v., Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 31: Liv. 21, 1, med. So converto, 3 ib. 3. transformo, 1: (Scylla) t.'d into a rock, in scopulum transformata, Ov. M. 14, 74: Virg. 4. transfĭgūro, 1: to t. a boy into a girl, puerum in muliebrem naturam tr., Suet. Ner. 28: Stat.: Plin.