Daphne, a nymph who, chased by Apollo, changed herself into a laurel. The myth is a point d'appui of the solar mythologists. Daphne was the name of a famous grove of cypresses and laurels near Antioch, with a temple of Apollo.
Daphne
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 677
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