From this union the innumerable myths gradually sprang up and developed, which in their own imaginative though often grotesque way explained the various phases of creation. […] Their varying analyses, however, may be separated into two distinct classes or divisions, each of which has its own adherents and supporters. […] He intruded himself on Diana while she was bathing, and was changed by her into a deer, in which form he was hunted by his own dogs and torn in pieces. […] Apollo courted her, but she fled from him, and was, at her own request, turned into a laurel tree. […] So named from thine own grove, Or from the light thou giv’st us from above.”