Peneus
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
If now we follow the Peneus, which runs from the north-west, higher up the stream than Tricca, we come to the mountain district of Hestiæotis.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Others imagined the same event to have been due to an earthquake, which drew down masses of rock, and stopped up the course of the Peneus in the narrow defile between mounts Ossa and Olympus.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
With the other arrow, blunt, and tipped with lead, he smote the beautiful Daphne, daughter of Peneus, the river-god.
From A Book of Myths by Helen Stratton
Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, flying from Apollo, was turned into the laurel.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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