. a dedicatory epigram written iN7)pri5fs, N7ip7)i3fj), to indicate the fiftyby Probus to Theodosius, and inserted for some daughters of Nereus and Doris. The Ne-reason after the Life of Hannibal. Hence the rcifi(pai H\icu, Soph. Phil. 1470),ing. As regards the objection that the Latinity in contradistinction to the Naiades, or theis marked by colloquial idioms unsuited to a nymphs of fresh water, and the Oceanides, orlearned contemporary of Cicero, and that the the nymphs of the great ocean. Their nameswhole style is inferior, it ha
. a dedicatory epigram written iN7)pri5fs, N7ip7)i3fj), to indicate the fiftyby Probus to Theodosius, and inserted for some daughters of Nereus and Doris. The Ne-reason after the Life of Hannibal. Hence the rcifi(pai H\icu, Soph. Phil. 1470),ing. As regards the objection that the Latinity in contradistinction to the Naiades, or theis marked by colloquial idioms unsuited to a nymphs of fresh water, and the Oceanides, orlearned contemporary of Cicero, and that the the nymphs of the great ocean. Their nameswhole style is inferior, it has been well remarked are not the same in all writers (II. xviii ; QQ 594 NEBEIUS Hes. Th. 240-263; Verg. Aen. v. 825 ; of. vi. 6; Ov. Met. ii. 10; Apollod. i. 2, 7).One of the most celebrated was Thetis, themother of Achilles. They are described aslovely divinities (Hes. Th. 240), imagined prob-ably from the play of the waves chasing each. Nereid. {Musco Borbouico, vol. vi. tav. xxxiv.) other, and as dwelling with their father at thebottom of the sea, and were believed to be pro-pitious to all sailors, and especially to the Ar-gonauts (Ap. Eh. iv. 859, 930; Apollod. i. 9,25)They were worshipped in several parts ofGreece, but more especially in seaport towns(Paus. ii. 1, 7; iii. 26, 5). They are frequentlyrepresented in works of art: in the older black-figured vases as maidens fully clothed; so alsoon the sculptures of the Nereid-monumentfrom Xanthus, now in the British Museum, inwhich the drapery seems intended to suggest arapid, flowing movement; but most examples offully-developed art show the Nereids as youth-ful, beautiful, and naked maidens; and they areoften grouped with Tritons, or riding on sea-monsters, as in the work of Scopas (Plin. ). But there was a differentconception among the Romans, ofmaidens with fishes tails, likemermaids, and sometimes withscales over all the body ( 9; of. Hor. A. P.
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