Olenus
3. A person living on Mount Ida, who wanted to take upon himself the punishment which his wife aId deserved by her pride of her beauty, and was metamorphosed along with her into stone. (Ov. Mel. 10.68, &c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.