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Fir-tree

(The). Atys was metamorphosed into a fir-tree by Cybele, as he was about to lay violent hands on himself. (Ovid Metamorphoses, x. fable 2.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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