The motif proper — why the myrrh-tree weeps salable tears — sits differently on our two pages. Apollodorus gives the transformation without the gum: Smyrna, cursed into passion for her father and pursued by his sword, prayed to vanish, and "the gods in compassion turned her into the tree which they call smyrna (myrrh)"; "Ten months afterwards the tree burst and Adonis, as he is called, was born" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV]. The gum enters only in the editor's margin: "The drops of gum which oozed from the myrrh-tree" were held to be the girl's tears, Frazer notes, citing this very Ovid [ibid., editor's note]. Ovid's text carries what the Greek leaves to its editor: in the bark "she still weeps on, and warm drops distil"; "There is a value even in her tears", and "the myrrh distilling from the bark, retains the name of its mistress" [The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 10]. Ovid keeps even the birth inside the wood: Lucina attends the groaning tree until "through the cleft bark it discharges the living burden" [ibid.]. Grief made merchandise: the tree mourns its former body, and the perfume trade collects.