Daphnaea
and DAPHNAEUS (Δαφναία and Δαφναῖος), surnames of Artemis and Apollo respectively, derived from δάφνη, a laurel, which was sacred to Apollo. In the case of Artemis it is uncertain why she bore that surname, and it was perhaps merely an allusion to her statue being made of laurel-wood (Paus. 3.24.6; Strab. xvi. p.750; Philostr. Vit. Apollon. 1.16; Eutrop. 6.11; Just. 15.4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.