Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), N, Necropŏlis, Nereïdes

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Nereïdes

（Νηρηΐδες). The nymphs of the sea,

Nereïd. (Pompeii.)

daughters of Nereus (q.v.) and Doris. They were said to be fifty in number, though Propertius (iii. 5, 33) makes them a hundred. The best known were Amphitrité, wife of Poseidon, Thetis, Galatea, Doto, etc. They were originally represented as having sea-grown hair and descending into a fish-like form, like the mermaids of later times. See Pliny, H. N. ix. 4; and the articles Naiades; Nymphae; Oceanides.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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