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
Peneus heard her voice and instantly her feet became fastened in the soil like roots.
From Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children by Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
The Peneus river, the most important stream in Thessaly, forces its way through the Vale of Tempe, between Mounts Ossa and Olympus, into the sea.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
Hercules could bend to his process of cleansing the stables of the King of Elis, the rivers Alpheus and Peneus.
From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by Malleson, George Bruce
By the latter people the province of Belvedere on the Peneus was called, in consequence of its fertility, “the milch cow of the Morea.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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