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
If now we follow the Peneus, which runs from the north-west, higher up the stream than Tricca, we come to the mountain district of Hestiæotis.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
The mouth of the Peneus, or the Magnesian mountain of Homolè, was on the eastern side considered as the boundary of Greece,2032 unless Magnesia also was excluded.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Peneian, pē-nē′yan, adj. relating to the river Peneus in the famous Vale of Tempe in Thessaly.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Peneus brought his most beautiful pebbles to Daphne’s cave every night.
From Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children by Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
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