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SYMAITHIS

Greek Name

Συμαιθις

Transliteration

Symaithis

Latin Spelling

Symaethis

Translation

Of Symaethus (river)

SYMAITHIS (Symaethis) was a Naiad-nymph of the River Symaithos in Sicily loved by the god Pan.


PARENTS

SYMAITHOS (Presumed from Ovid Metamorphoses 13.750)

OFFSPRING

AKIS (by Pan) (Ovid Metamorphoses 13.750)


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Ovid, Metamorphoses 13. 750 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Acis was son of Nympha Symaethis and Faunus [Pan] was his father, a great joy to both his parents."


SOURCES

ROMAN

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