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Linden Tree (A)

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Baucis was converted into a linden tree. Philēmon and Baucis were poor cottagers of Phrygia, who entertained Jupiter so hospitably that he promised to grant them whatever request they made. They asked that both might die together, and it was so. At death Philēmon became an oak and Baucis a linden tree. Their branches intertwined at the top.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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