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Daphne

Apollo’s attempted rape represents dawn fleeing daylight. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 72; Jobes, 414]
See: Dawn

daphne

traditional symbol of fame. [Plant Symbolism: Jobes, 414]
See: Fame

Daphne

turned into laurel tree to escape Apollo. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 75]
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Daphne

a genus of plants of the family Thymeleaceae. There are about 80 species, growing mainly in the temperate belt of Europe and Asia. In the USSR there are more than 15 species. All of them are small shrubs with few branches. The flowers are white, rose, or yellow, with four petals grown together at the base in the shape of a tube that are similar in appearance to lilac flowers. The species most widely occurring in the USSR is the spurge olive, or dwarf bay. The rose daphne grows in Poles’e, and the closely related Julian daphne grows on the cretaceous slopes of the Central Russian uplands.

Daphne

in Greek mythology, a nymph. Pursued by Apollo, who was enamored of her. Daphne begged her father—the river god Peneus—for help, and he turned her into a laurel tree (Greek, dáphnè—laurel). The myth of Daphne has served as a subject in poetry (Metamorphoses of Ovid), painting, and sculpture (N. Poussin and G. L. Bernini, among others).

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