the story of the laurel tree and apollo

1. The idea inflamed him, and he started running after the nymph. Daphne fled, and she was an excellent runner. Apollo was hard put to overtake her

2. she saw her father's river ahead of her. She screamed to him, "Help me father, help me." At these words a dragging numbness came over her, and her feet seemed rooted in the earth. Bark was enclosing her body, and leaves were sprouting from her arms. She had been changed into a laurel tree.

3. Daphne was an independent-minded, love- and marriage-hating young huntress

4. Her father, the river god Peneus, wished her to marry and have children, but all Daphne that wanted was to hunt alone in the deep woods

5. One day Apollo saw her. She was hunting She was enchantingly beautiful and Apollo thought