This would-be lover of Daphne and twin brother of Artemis
He once fell in love with a nymph, the mother of Tarquitus, and in a version of that story he seduced her by turning into a tortoise and then, once she took him into her lap, turned into a snake and raped her. While Timolus judged, Midas received the ears of an ass for dissenting in a contest between this god and Pan. This god traveled to the Castalian Spring at Delphi to kill the Python, and one of his more notable love interests rejects him until she morphs into a bay laurel tree. This would-be lover of Daphne and twin brother of Artemis is, for 10 points, what patron of music, the Greek successor to Helios as god of the sun?
He once fell in love with a nymph, the mother of Tarquitus, and in a version of that story he seduced her by turning into a tortoise and then, once she took him into her lap, turned into a snake and raped her.
{Apollo}