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
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 Lyell, Charles, Sir
The Peneus flows eastwardly to the Ægean Sea, and escapes from the great valley through a narrow and romantic pass lying between the Mountains Olympus and Ossa.
From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Pausanias places the battle on the Peneus, I. 27.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Xerxes asked his guides if it would be possible to find any other place where the waters of the Peneus could be conducted to the sea.
From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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