the myth of actaeon is known to have been narrated in the "catalogue" by virtue of a paraphrase found in a fragmentary dictionary of metamorphoses. according to the dictionary, the "catalogue" included a variant of the myth in which actaeon was changed into a stag by artemis and then killed by his own hounds because he attempted to take semele as his wife, thus angering zeus, who had designs upon the woman. before this testimonium appeared, another papyrus containing 21 hexameters related to the actaeon myth was published by edgar lobel, who tentatively attributed the text to the "catalogue". as the fragment opens, actaeon has already been torn apart by his dogs, and a goddess—athena or, less likely, artemis—arrives at chiron's cave. she prophesies to the centaur that dionysus will be born to semele and that actaeon's dogs will roam the hills with him until his apotheosis, after which they will return to stay with chiron. at this point the papyrus is damaged, but it is clear that the dogs are delivered from a "madness" (, "lussa", line 15) and begin to mourn their master as the goddess returns to olympus. merkelbach and west did not include this papyrus in their edition of the fragment, the latter calling it an "incoherent epic pastiche" which would cause the author of the "catalogue" to "turn in his grave if he knew that it had been attributed to him." according to glenn most, some scholars believe that the text is hellenistic, but it is demonstrably archaic, and at least a few classicists today consider it to be part of the "catalogue".