Daphne, fleeing from Apollo, is transformed into a laurel, hence "The Bayes."
At 01:50 PM 2/4/99 GMT, M G MCQUILLAN wrote:
>Douglas, while you have the book in your hand, or anyone else with a
>good classical education - is there a passage in Metamorphoses where
>a girl/nymph gets turned to a willow tree? Or is the association
>between willows and death/mourning ONLY to do with the pendent
>boughs looking like long hair on a bowed head? This would be the
>origin of the Ovidian association, but I need to know fast, if.
>
>cheers,
>
>robin
>
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