Peneus
Americannoun
noun
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Exhausted, the nymph, unable to outstrip the god, begs her father, Peneus, a river divinity, to help her.
From The New Yorker
Some time after this episode, Apollo encountered in the forest a beautiful nymph by the name of Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus.
From Project Gutenberg
He set about turning the course of Alpheus and Peneus, rivers of Whitehall, and he sent their waters rushing through the stable.
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So what did Hercules do but lead the courses of two streams, the Alpheus and the Peneus, right through the Augean stables cleansing them thoroughly.
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By the latter people the province of Belvedere on the Peneus was called, in consequence of its fertility, “the milch cow of the Morea.”
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