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Apollo and Daphne 1636 - 1638. Thulden, Theodoor van

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recounts the transformation of Daphne into a tree in book I of the Metamorphoses (452-552:) "(...) Phoebus's first love was Daphne, the daughter of Pegus, a love that was not produced by ignorant chance, but by cruel wrath of Cupid. (...) Apollo was preparing to continue speaking when Peneus's daughter fled in fear and left him with the word in his mouth (...). Her strength exhausted, she turned pale and defeated by him. effort of rapid flight, he said, looking at the waters of the Peneus: "Help me, father, if the rivers are divinities, spoil, by changing it, this figure with which I have liked too much"! As soon as he finished his prayer, a heavy drowsiness invades his limbs: a thin bark surrounds his tender chest, his hair grows like leaves, his arms like branches, his feet have recently become so fast that they adhere to lazy roots, instead of the face there is the cup: only beauty remains in it.