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Hesiod, Theogony, line 337 (search)
ir stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius,Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander. Also she brought forth a holy company of daughtersGoettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their names from lands over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris, Ianeira （“Lady of the Ionians”）, but that most are called after some quality which their streams possessed: thus Xanthe is the “Brown” or “Turbid,” Amphirho is the “Surrounding” river, Ianthe is “She who delights,” and Ocyrrhoe is the “Swialaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora,Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso,Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand