sec. V d.C.,
Nonno di Panopolis, Dionysiaca, XV, 300-302, 308-311
“[…] And you, Daphne beloved, break into arboreal speech! Would that fair Nicaia had been in former times: Apollo would have pursued the more dainty, and Daphne would not have become a bush.”
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“[…] Ah, how many a song sang Daphnis the oxherd ! but with his chanting the maiden hid all the more in untrodden ravines, to escape the tune of the shepherd’s call. Ah, how many a song sang Phoibos ! while Daphne heard him, but felt no pleasure at heart.”
