A.“Ὠκεανὸν . . καὶ Τηθὺν ἐποίησαν τῆς γενέσεως πατέρας” Arist.Metaph. 983b30; taken as type of a very old woman, prob. in Call.Iamb.1.248 (Hermes 69.174); cf. προτήθυς.
II. in later writers, the Sea, Lyc.1069, AP7.214.6 (Arch.), Nonn.D.31.187, Orph.A.335, etc., cf. Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.11, Suid. [υ_ in disyll. cases, υ^ in trisyll.]