Homer, Odyss. xiii. [Greek: kourai Dios]. Virgil,
in the eighth book of the AEneid, speaks as if the Nymphs, or Naiads,
were the parents of the rivers: but in this he contradicts the
testimony of Hesiod, and evidently departs from the orthodox system,
which represented several nymphs as retaining to every single river.
On the other hand, Callimachus, who was very learned in all the
school-divinity of those times, in his hymn to Delos, maketh Peneus,
the great Thessalian river-god, the father of his nymphs: and Ovid,
in the fourteenth book of his Metamorphoses, mentions the Naiads of
Latium as the immediate daughters of the neighbouring river-gods.
Accordingly, the Naiads of particular rivers are occasionally, both
by Ovid and Statius, called by patronymic, from the name of the
river to which they belong.
NOTE K.
'_Syrian Daphne_.'--L. 40.
The grove of Daphne in Syria, near Antioch, was famous for its
delightful fountains.
NOTE L.
'_The tribes beloved by Paeon_.'--L. 40.
Mineral and medicinal springs. Paeon was the physician of the gods.
NOTE M.
'_The winged offspring_.'--L. 43.
The winds; who, according to Hesiod and Apollodorus, were the sons of
Astraeus and Aurora.
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