A long time ago in Greece Artemis took Apollo into the forest to teach him how to hunt. In the middle of the forest they found a ragged and homeless man picking at the raw meat of a deer carcass. Artemis and Apollo changed their appearance and made their aliases known to the man.

“Oh, hello,” the man said, looking shyly at the twins. Dry blood was caked around his mouth and his brown matted hair was infested with leaves and dirt.

“Hello. I’m Simetra and this is my brother, Ollopa,” Artemis said.

“Nomis,” the stranger introduced himself, shaking their hands.

“Well, Nomis, we were just traveling in the woods and wondering if you had any of that deer to spare,” Artemis explained. This was obviously a test to question the man’s character.

Nomis looked at his deer and back at the twins. “Of corse I can spare some of my food for a fellow traveler,” he said as he pulled a chunk of meat off the deer and handed it to the both of them.

As the three ate Artemis and Apollo learned a lot about Nomis. They learned that he was falsely accused for cheating on his wife and Hera punished him by cursing the forest he was in so that he could never leave.

After they had finished they crude meal Apollo and Artemis revealed their true identities to the man and told him they would grant him one wish for being so kind to them.

“I wish to be free from this curse and travel where I please,” Nomis said.

Apollo and Artemis thought about this wish. “Well, it’s impossible for us to take away Hera’s curse,” Artemis told Nomis.

Nomis’s face fell into a frown.

“But if we turned you into someone, or something, else you’d be able to leave your prison,” Apollo finished off Artemis’s statement.

“I like the way you think, brother,” Artemis said, smiling.

“Oh, please. I’ll do anything,” Nomis begged.

So the twins turned Nomis into a frog, free to go where he wishes, but because Hera’s curse got in the way, the frog spends most of his life in the swamps and forests.