ἐκτέμνεσθαί τινας φιλανθρωπίᾳ → disarm and deceive by kindness
Pīcus: i, m.,I son of Saturn, grandfather of Latinus, king of the aborigines, and a prophet; he was changed by Circe, whose love he had slighted, into a woodpecker, Ov. M. 14, 320; Verg. A. 7, 189 Serv.; Juv. 8, 131.