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The 14th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the 9th book of Vigil's Aeneid both include the following episode: the Troyan fleet is set ablaze by Turnus, king of Rutuli, and goddess Cybele decides to turn them into sea nymphs because the trees they were made from had grown in a sacred grove dedicated to her on Mount Ida and she couldn't tolerate them being destroyed.

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