| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Amph trite (4 syl.). Wife of Poseidon (3 syl.), queen goddess of the sea. | 1 |
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N.B. Neptune had no wife. | 2 |
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Doto, a sea-nymph, mentioned by Virgil. | 3 |
Galat a, a daughter of Nereus. | 4 |
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Glaucus, a fisherman of Bœotia, afterwards a marine deity. | 5 |
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Ino, who threw herself from a rock into the sea, and was made a sea-goddess. | 6 |
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Neptune (2 syl.), king of the ocean. | 7 |
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The Nereids (3 syl.) or Nerides (4 syl.), fifty in number. | 8 |
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Nereus (2 syl.) and his wife Doris. Their palace was at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. His hair was seaweeds. | 9 |
Oce nos and his wife Tethys. Ocenos was not god of the sea, but of the ocean, supposed to form a boundary round the world. | 10 |
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Oceanides (5 syl.). Daughters of Ocenos. | 11 |
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Palmon, the Greek Portumnus. | 12 |
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Portumnus, the protector of harbours. | 13 |
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Poseidon (3 syl.), the Greek Neptune. | 14 |
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Proteus (2 syl.), who assumed every variety of shape. | 15 |
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Sirens (The). Sea nymphs who charmed by song. | 16 |
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Tethys, wife of Oceanos, and daughter of Uranus and Terra. | 17 |
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Thetis, a daughter of Nereus and mother of Achills. | 18 |
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Triton, son of Poseidon (3 syl.). | 19 |
 The Naiads or Naides (3 syl.) were river nymphs. | 20 |
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