Achelous

How to use Achelous in a sentence

• Achelous readily agreed to this way of settling their rival pretensions, for he had no doubt as to the result of the wrestling.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• Deaneira, however, much preferred her new lover, and begged him to free her from the betrothal with Achelous.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• This decided the victory in favor of Hercules, and Achelous departed sullenly to his bed in the river.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• Their parentage also is variously given, though they are usually mentioned as daughters of the river god, Achelous.

  Woman's Work in Music | Arthur Elson

• The oracle of Dodone, in all its answers, ordered sacrifices to the Achelous river.

  Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines | John Claudius Pitrat