SOURCES: The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (1st Century AD)
 

DESCRIPTION: “"While I was yet a servant we liv'd in a narrow lane, now the house of Gavilla: There, as the gods would have it, I fell in love with Tarentius's wife; he kept an eating-house. Ye all knew Melissa Tarentina, a pretty little punching-block, and withal beautiful; but (so help me Hercules) I minded her not so much for the matter of the point of that, as that she was good-humour'd; if I asked her any thing, she never deny'd me; and what money I had, I trusted her with it; nor did she ever fail me when I'd occasion. It so happened, that a she-companion of hers had dy'd in the country, and she was gone thither; how to come at her I could not tell; but a friend is seen at a dead lift; it also happened my master was gone to Capua to dispatch somewhat or other: I laid hold of the opportunity, and persuaded mine host to take an evenings walk of four or five miles out of town, for he was a stout fellow, and as bold as a devil: The moon shone as bright as day, and about cock-crowing we fell in with a burying-place, and certain monument of the dead: my man loitered behind me a-star-gazing, and I sitting expecting him, fell a singing and numbering them; when looking round me, what should I see but mine host stript stark-naked, and his cloaths lying by the high-wayside. The sight struck me every where, and I stood as if I had been dead; but he piss'd round his cloaths, and of a sudden was turned to a wolf: Don't think I jest; I value no man's estate at that rate, as to tell a lye. But as I was saying, after he was turned to a wolf, he set up a howl, and fled to the woods. At first I knew not where I was, till going to take up his cloaths, I found them also turn'd to stone...” (The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter)

NOTES: Niceros witnesses a soldier who turns himself into a wolf then hears how that wolf ravages his girlfriend's flock. He does not do anything to kill the werewolf, only avoids him in future.

HISTORY: Niceros's tale uses some of the classic werewolfisms even 2000 years ago, such as the wound that identifies the werewolf and a man who wishes to do evil by choice. What we do not see is super-powers. The wolf is a wolf and subject to wounds like any other creature. The idea of peeing on the clothes to turn them to stone was not one that caught on. It solves a lot of problems for the werewolf.