Cymodoce

Goddess

In Greek mythology, Cymodoce (Ancient Greek: Κυμοδόκη, romanized: Kymodokê, lit. 'wave-gatherer', 'wave-receiver' or 'awaiting waves') is one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. She is briefly mentioned in Statius' Silvae.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“Then terribly did Achilles groan aloud, and his queenly mother heard him as she sat in the depths of the sea beside the old man her father. Thereat she uttered a shrill cry, and the goddesses thronged about her, even all the daughters of Nereus that were in the deep of the sea. There were Glauce and Thaleia and Cymodoce,”