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Cymothoe

Goddess

In Greek mythology, Cymothoë (Ancient Greek: Κυμοθόη, romanized: Kymothoê or Kymothóē, lit. 'wave-swift' or 'she who runs with the waves') was the "cerulean" Nereid of gentle and quiet waves. She was a marine-nymph daughter of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.

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Cymothoe. Achilles departure Eretria Painter CdM Paris 851
Achilles departure Eretria Painter CdM Paris 851 · Marie-Lan NguyenImage source ↗CC BY 2.5

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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

“Nesaea and Speio and Thoë and ox-eyed Halië, and Cymothoë and Actaeä and Limnoreia, and Melite and Iaera and Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto and Pherousa and Dynamene, and Dexamene and Amphinone and Callianeira,”
Il. 18.40–44

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