DAPHNE (Gr. laurel tree), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of the Arcadian river-god Ladon, or the Thessalian Peneus, or of the Laconian Amyclas. She was beloved by Apollo, and when pursued by him was changed by her mother Ge into a laurel tree (Ovid, Metam., i. 45 2-56 7) . In the Peloponnesian legends, another suitor of Daphne, Leucippus, son of Oenomaus of Pisa, disguised himself as a girl and joined her companions. His sex was discovered while bathing, and he was slain by the nymphs (Pausanias viii. 2o; Parthenius, Erotica, is).