Minerva tore to pieces that bright cloth whose colors showed the crimes the gods had wrought; a boxwood shuttle lay at hand - with that, three and four times she struck Arachne's forehead.
This shows Athena punishing the hubris Arachne has committed in her tapestry; the outlining of the gods wrongs.
And Niobe now sat childless, among cadavers - daughters, sons, and husband; grief had made her stony, stiff. The air is still, not even one hair moves, her face is deathly pale; above sad cheeks her eyes stare motionless. Even her tongue is frozen in her mouth; her palate now is hard; her veins can pulse no more; her neck can't bend; her arms can't move; her feet can't walk.
Niobe's punishment for her hubris.
But they, despite her prayers, still refused; and then they added threats, and insults, too. And as if that were not enough, they soiled the water with their feet and hands, and jumped - maliciously - to stir the bottom mud.
Latona: She lifts her hands to heaven, and she cries: "Live then forever in that pool."
Lycian peasants punished for their hubris also. This chapter is full of metamorphoses borne of the hubris transgressions against the gods.
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