Ovid, Metamorphoses

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Daphne, fleeing Apollo, becomes a tree:

"Her prayer was scarcely finished when she feels / a torpor take possession of her limbs -- / her supple trunk is girdled with a thin / layer of fine bark over her smooth skin; / her hair turns into foliage, her arms / grow into branches, sluggish roots adhere / to feet that were so recently so swift, / her head becomes the summit of a tree; / all that remains of her is a warm glow." (I.754-762)