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Peneus

[ puh-nee-uhs ]

noun

  1. ancient name of Salambria.


Peneus

/ ɪˈԾːə /

noun

  1. the ancient name for the Salambria
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Her father, the river-god Peneus, was greatly tried because she refused all the handsome and eligible young men who wooed her.

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Exhausted, the nymph, unable to outstrip the god, begs her father, Peneus, a river divinity, to help her.

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Some time after this episode, Apollo encountered in the forest a beautiful nymph by the name of Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus.

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He set about turning the course of Alpheus and Peneus, rivers of Whitehall, and he sent their waters rushing through the stable.

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So what did Hercules do but lead the courses of two streams, the Alpheus and the Peneus, right through the Augean stables cleansing them thoroughly.

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