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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NEREUS , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the eldest son of See also:

PONTUS

Pontus and Gaea, and See also:

FATHER

father of the fifty Nereids. He is a beneficent and See also:

VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

venerable old See also:

man of the See also:

sea, full of See also:

WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom and skilled in prophecy, but, like See also:

Proteus, he will only reveal what he knows under compulsion. Thus Heracles seized him when asleep, and, although he attempted to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape by assuming various forms, compelled him to reveal the whereabouts of the apples of the See also:

HESPERIDES

Hesperides (See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus ii. 5). His favourite dwelling-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place is a cavern in the depths of the See also:

AEGEAN

Aegean. The fifty daughters of Nereus, the Nereids, are personifications of the smiling, quiet sea. Of these, See also:

THETIS

Thetis and See also:

AMPHITRITE

Amphitrite See also:

RULE

rule the sea according to the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of different localities; Galatea is a Sicilian figure, who plays with and deludes her rustic See also:

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover of the See also:

SHORE

shore, See also:

POLYPHEMUS

Polyphemus. Nereus is represented with the See also:

SCEPTRE

sceptre and See also:

TRIDENT (Lat. tridens, lri-, tres, three and dens, tooth)

trident; the Nereids are depicted as graceful maidens, lightly clad or naked, See also:

RIDING

riding on tritons and dolphins. The name has nothing to do with the See also:

MODERN

modern Greek vep5 (really veap*v, "fresh " [waterl) : it is probably a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of Ni peros.

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