![]() ![]() Pausanias, Guide to Greece "Book VIII: Arcadia", ch. 452, &c.) Daphne in her flight from Apollo was metamorphosed herself into a laurel-tree. But Apollo's jealousy caused his discovery during the bath, and he was killed by the nymphs. Another story relates that Leucippus, the son of Oenomaus, king of Pisa, was in love with Daphne and approached her in the disguise of a maiden and thus hunted with her. When on the point of being overtaken by him, she prayed to her mother, Ge, who opened the earth and received her, and in order to console Apollo she created the ever-green laurel-tree, of the boughs of which Apollo made himself a wreath. 15.) She was extremely beautiful and was loved and pursued by Apollo. ![]() 16), or of the river-god Peneius in Thessaly (Ovid Metamorphoses. ![]() A third Daphne is called a daughter of the river- god Ladon in Arcadia by Ge (Pausanias viii. ![]() She was made prisoner in the war of the Epigoni and given as a present to Apollo. 66) describes her as the daughter of Teiresias, who is better known by the name of Manto. 5.ยง 3) she was an Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which she had been appointed by Ge. DAPHNE a fair maiden who is mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. ![]()
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