| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
Νυμφαι Κεφισιδες
Ναιαδες Κεφισιδες |
Nymphai Kephisides
Naiades Kephisides |
Nymphae Cephisides
Naïdes Cephisides |
Nymphs of the
River Cephisus |
THE KEPHISIDES (or Cephisides) were the Naiad Nymphs of the River Kephisos (Cephisus) in Boiotia (central Greece).
| PARENTS |
| KEPHISOS (Corinna Frag 655, Ovid Metamorphoses 3.350) |
| OFFSPRING |
| 50x SONS (by Orion) (Corinna Frag 655) |
Pindar, Pythian Ode 12 str 4 (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"The Kharites's (Graces') city, home of lovely dances [Orkhomenos], where the Nymphe, daughter of Kephissos [the River Cephisus], has her precinct."
Corinna, Fragment 655 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (C5th B.C.) :
"Women of Tanagra . . . often I adorned [with songs] our ancestor Kephisos [the River Cephisus] with my words, often great Orion and the fifty sons of high strength whom he fathered by intercourse with the fair Nymphai [the Kephisides]."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. 505 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"On the green grass he [Narkissos, Narcissus] drooped his weary head, and those bright eyes that loved their master's beauty closed in death . . . His sister Naides wailed and sheared their locks in mourning for their brother; the Dryades too wailed and sad Echo wailed in answering woe. And then the brandished torches, bier and pyre were ready--but no body anywhere; and in its stead they found a flower - behold, white petals clustered round a cup of gold!"
Sources:
- Pindar, Odes - Greek Lyric C5th BC
- Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th BC
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD
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