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His name inspired such terror that the suitors of Penelope used it to threaten
beggars . ( Apollonius Rhodius 4.1092-1095 ; Homer , Odyssey , 18.83-87 . )
Echidna . A monster . Described by Hesiod as half nymph , half speckled snake ...
His name inspired such terror that the suitors of Penelope used it to threaten
beggars . ( Apollonius Rhodius 4.1092-1095 ; Homer , Odyssey , 18.83-87 . )
Echidna . A monster . Described by Hesiod as half nymph , half speckled snake ...
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See NYMPH . Narcissus . The son of the nymph Leiriope by the river - god Cephi.
ssus . When Leiriope asked the then little - known seer Teiresias if her newborn
son would live a long life , he replied , “ If he never know himself .
See NYMPH . Narcissus . The son of the nymph Leiriope by the river - god Cephi.
ssus . When Leiriope asked the then little - known seer Teiresias if her newborn
son would live a long life , he replied , “ If he never know himself .
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Nycteus and Lycus were sons of Chthonius , one of the Sparti , or of Hyrieus by
the nymph Clonia , or of Poseidon by the Pleiad Celaeno . Although Chthonius
was a Theban ally of Cadmus , his sons , for some unrecorded reason , grew up
in ...
Nycteus and Lycus were sons of Chthonius , one of the Sparti , or of Hyrieus by
the nymph Clonia , or of Poseidon by the Pleiad Celaeno . Although Chthonius
was a Theban ally of Cadmus , his sons , for some unrecorded reason , grew up
in ...
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| Title | CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY |
| Author | EDWARD TRIPP |
| Published | 1970 |
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