The nymphs then abandoned her, and she eventually gave birth to her son Amphissus.
Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father Apollo in the city that he founded, Aphissa[?].
In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.
Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father Apollo in the city of Oeta, which he founded.
Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had became a priestess of the temple, but one day Apollo again returned in the form of a serpent and coiled around her while she stood by a spring.
Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.
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