Peneios

[pee-nyaws]

noun

1. Modern Greek name of Salambria.

Example Sentences

Daphne, the daughter of Peneios, a fisherman, and Gaea, his wife, lives in a hut on a riverbank.

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Peneios is also, it would seem, the river god; Gaea, the earth goddess.

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Ain Anger’s mellow, booming bass voice perfectly suited Peneios.

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One day she was roaming along the winding banks of Peneios, when a lion sprang from a thicket across her path.

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Then, with a wild cry, she said, "Father Peneios, receive thy child," and she rushed into the stream, whose waters closed gently over her.

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